Lucy, Installation of ICSF is not really going to help you without CEX2C features. The 3863 feature code (MES) will give you CPACF. Which effectively gives you some hardware enabled clear key encryption but requires assembler coding in order to take advantage of it.
ICSF will give you a collection of API's that are very helpful, but ICSF currently (unless someone can correct me) requires CEX2C to become useable. As to what you can do with CA:DISK or CA:VTAPE, I suggest that you contact CA. IBM's tape encryption works very well but you'll need the drives to make it work. Additionally, there is a bunch of CPACF/ICSF information located on the techdocs http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/Techdocs Just search for "crypto". Rob Schramm Sirius Computer Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
