It was what I was told. I have not confirmed or verified my colleagues' statement.
If the DFHSM tape is actually EFMT2 then I will believe that it is being encrypted but not by DFHSM. The thought was there might be a DFHSM parm that did this rather than the hardware. Lizette > > Why do you think HSM is not letting your tapes use the hardware > encryption? > dd keller > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I should have included > > z/OS V1.9 RSU0902 > Using TS3500 with 1120 E05 tape drives. > > We would like to be able to encrypt the DFHSM Mig tapes. We prefer using > our DATACLAS but I am not sure DFHSM is letting it happen. > > We are using this ACS code for all of our customer backup tape data so it > can be sent offsite incase of a DR. However, we want to include the DFHSM > tapes as well in the encryption process. > > Lizette > > > > > >Depends on who(m) you want to do the encryption. DFHSM or the Tape > Drives. > > > >See the ENCRYPT keyword on the DUMPCLASS definitions. > > > >BTW, AFAIK, this is not available for DFHSM BACKUP or MIGRATION. > >IIRC, this came in about the z/OS 1.7 time frame via an APAR ( I wasn't > able to locate it w/a quick search). > > > >HTH, > > > ><snip> > >I am struggeling through the 2000 page hsm,dss, and ... manual. > > > >Is there a parm in DFHSM to tell him we will be using encryption on his > tapes? > > > >I have an acs routine currently that says if the DSN = HSM.HMIG.* then > Dataclas=ENCRYPT > ></snip> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

