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How You Verify Maintenance and New Releases

When a separate test system or LPAR is not available, you can define a specific CA Tape Encryption task to verify maintenance and new releases. To test in this type of environment:

• Create a new BES task to use only for testing purposes.
• Define the new load library to be tested as a STEPLIB to this BES task.
• Create test primary and mirror databases.
• To test a new level of the operating system intercepts for CA Tape Encryption, you can refresh these intercepts from the test BES task. The open, close, and end-of-volume routines (also known as the TEP routines) are not changed by starting this task.
• If you want to test the B2B decryption capabilities, load the TEP routines for testing..
• If you are using the SAF Interface, define LOCAL protection profiles for the newly created BES.