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Parmlib Settings for Failover Tasks

You must set up CA Tape Encryption failover tasks to use the same parmlib settings as the primary task for the following attributes:

• DsnameBESPrimaryDB
• DsnameBESMirrorDB
• KeysDatabase
• TMSUpdate
• FipsMode
• Keyhash

In addition, for all the attributes of the following sections, use the same settings from the parmlib of the primary task for the parmlib of the failover task:

• B2BKeyrings section
• B2BCodeBooks section
• SymmetricKeys section

In most cases, for all failover tasks that provide failover support to a primary task, it is easiest to use the same parmlib as that used by the primary task, with the following exception:

For tasks that are to be run as failover tasks, set the FailoverCandidate attribute as follows:

FailoverCandidate=Y