On Tuesday, 09/05/2006 at 04:07 EST, "McKown, John" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I assume that by "you", you actually mean "the company you work for".
> I'm not responsible for this stuff. Except, perhaps, to get ICSF working
> again. Ever since we upgraded from a z800 to a z890, I just can't get it
> running again. And I followed the book step by step. Actually, we are
> looking at some software to do encryption on the z890. I don't think
> that it requires ICSF to be working. But it does use the CPACF hardware.

Something to think about: CPACF does not do "secure key" operations.  You 
will still want to use ICSF in order to keep the clear-text keys out of 
your application address space and to avoid Yet Another Key Managment 
Problem.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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