RE: Full Save Encryption to Tape

I don't think you can do this from the OS at present.

There is a least one company who has come out with a piece of hardware that 
sits between the iSeries and the tape drive and performs encryption/decryption 
on the fly.  I remember seeing an article about it last week.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> 
> We have an initiative to explore options to encrypt our data 
> going to our
> back up tapes on our iSeries platforms.   By this I mean, the 
> data on the
> tape will be fully encrypted, so if the tape was lost and got into the
> wrong hands, the data could not be displayed or restored from 
> the tape to
> another iSeries without a security key.
> 
> Is anyone else on the list doing this ?
> 
> Does IBM have a native process to achieve this using native 
> Save/Restore
> commands ?
> 
> 
> 
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