Dean, I believe the product you are talking about is CA's new BrightStor Tape Encryption product, which is currently in Beta and will go GA next month (Osvaldo Ridner gave a presentation on it at Share last week as well).
This new product will allow any tape file to be encrypted and decrypted as it is being accessed by any application. The encryption method used (if any) is based on specific values being put into the "descriptor field" of the SMS dataclass. Since any dataset (including non-SMS managed tape) can be assigned an SMS dataclass, we chose this. The file itself does not have to reside upon an SMS-managed tape, but an SMS dataclass with a specific keyword in the descriptor field does need to be assigned. This can be via ACS rules (for those sites that want to encrypt all tape datasets for example) or via JCL with the DATACLAS parameter (if you want to only encrypt very specific files). This encryption eliminates the need to copy a tape dataset from one tape to another to encrypt and to re-copy to decrypt. The encryption is performed as the tape is originally being created or read, by any application. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Encryption & SMS Hi, I received a note mentioning a vendor is developing an encryptrion product. They mentioned in the note: " The OPEN intercept will still need to check the SMS ACS to determine which encryption method to use." My question is what is the diffenece between an encryption routine for SMS -vs- non-SMS. Is this product specific or does it have to do with SMS itself ? TIA Dean Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
