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Copy TDE wallets out of and into ASM with kscopy

  As organizations continue to strengthen their database security posture, centralizing encryption key management has become an increasingly important operational and compliance requirement. Oracle Key Vault (OKV) provides a secure, scalable platform for managing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) master keys across enterprise database environments. When migrating existing encrypted Oracle RAC databases from traditional wallet-based key management to OKV, careful planning can help ensure a smooth transition while preserving access to both current and historical encryption keys.  Before migrating an encrypted, RAC-enabled database from a shared local TDE wallet to OKV, it is recommended to leverage OKV's unique capability and upload the current and all retired TDE keys to OKV. In Oracle RAC, only shared wallets (for example stored in ACFS or directly in ASM) that can be accessed by all RAC instances are supported. Using individual TDE wallets for each RAC node is ...