Regarding the "Trivial" encryption key.  That was a different problem
for us.  We had an issue with our EKM that led to tapes being encrypted
with a trivial key.  Older tapes were unreadable with the trivial key.
You would be seeing strange tape drive failures and lots of errors on
older files but not newer files that you were restoring...
I don't think a trivial key is your problem.
Sorry for the red herring.

"We are restoring files from our library, which were backed up using an
encryption key we've manually defined.  Most of the time, once I'm
prompted for the key, the restoration goes just dandy.
However, there are some files where the encryption key does not appear
to be accepted, no matter what we do.  We've only ever had this one key,
so we have no idea why TSM is barfing on this."

TSM Version 5, Release 4, Level 2.4, server and client.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

Bruce T.

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Bruce T. Harvey
AIX Network Engineer

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