The actual error message is IOS628E ENCRYPTION ON DEVICE 0A0D HAS FAILED DUE TO OMVS SEGMENT FAILURE FOR IOSAS
However, once the tape is dropped with the I/O error, the next tape mounted runs successfully. The job runs to good eoj. Lizette > >Yes, we are a TSS shop using EKM. However, we don’t do any native tape >encryption. All of ours is behind a TS7700 VTS. Sounds likely, however, what >CA is telling you. My suggestion to you is to have more than one EKM Server, >so that at least one is up all the time. If you only run a single production >LPAR, then I guess that is a problem. If you have a development LPAR, I would >consider running EKM there as well. > >Didn’t CA tell you exactly what is wrong with the ACID? What is the >additional message text of IOS638E. There appears to be multiple scenarios >this message documents. > > > >I am having an issue with IOSAS and TSS. After an IPL the first job that >requests an encryption of a tape fails with IOS628E. This causes my tape to >have an I/O error and is dismounted. The job then immediately mounts a new >tape and viola it runs to a good EOJ. However, now I have a tape I have to >correct in CA1 and ISMF in order to use it again. > >IBM sent me to CA and CA TSS is saying this is due to TSS coming up later than >IOSAS and the ACID is not quiet correct. > >Anyone else run into this? > >Lizette > >PS Sorry if this is a duplicate. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

