John, As R.S. already has said, Z/OS 1.8 offers some alternatives from the traditional RACF tape data set protection. That is worth a look for those wanting to use just DATASET profiles. You can also get BLP authorization included even though TAPEVOL is not ACTIVE.....
Mike Wood RMM Development On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:35:28 -0500, John Benik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are trying to find the best way to stop using discrete profiles for at least >our virtual tape environment. What is the best way to do this, we know one >way is through the use of VLPOOL statements in the RMM parms, but this >means deleteing all existing profiles?? We always were thinking of getting rid >of Tape vol class, but it seems this could cause an issue with BLP processing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

