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Activate the Tape Management System Interface

For CA Tape Encryption to communicate with the tape management system installed in your environment, you need to modify the TMSUpdate attribute in parmlib. Specify the following attribute to activate the tape management system interface:

TMSUpdate=Y

CA Tape Encryption passes the generated key index to the active tape management system during tape file close processing.

Note: Do not set the TMSUpdate attribute to Y for test BES tasks on systems where a production BES task is also running with TMSUpdate=Y.