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When Identical Cryptographic Hardware is Not Available for Test Systems

For many sites, you will have a separate test system available but the identical cryptographic hardware may not be installed. It is very important that you perform testing in this environment. Consider the following:

• You can test the system intercepts to tape activity during open, close and end-of-volume processing. These intercepts are shared by all CA Tape Encryption tasks, so only a single version of these components can be active on the system at a time.
• After successfully testing a new version of the system intercepts and CA Tape Encryption tasks on a test system, you can test any hardware-related processing by bringing up a test task on the production LPAR where the hardware is installed.
• You can use the TBEMIGRT utility to copy keys from your production CKDS to create a test database on your test system. For information about copying keys with this utility, see TBEMIGRT Utility in the chapter “Performing Recovery Operations.”