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START Command—Start CA Tape Encryption Subsystem

Use the START command to start the CA Tape Encryption subsystem.

This command has the following format:

START BES.BESn

n

Indicates the number of the BES task you want to start.

This command can be abbreviated as follows:

S BES.BESn

Example 1: START command

This example starts the BES2 task:

S BES.BES2

Example 2: START command

This example starts the BES6 task and specifies that the subsystem should use the SYSP.BES.CTAPPARM dataset rather than the default parmlib dataset:

S BES.BES6,PARMLIB='SYSP.BES.CTAPPARM'