Not really familiar with RACF but in my mainframe days we used ACF2.  My 
initial guess is that someone has implemented rules against HLI that these 
tapes are part of.  Hope this helps...Regards

Larry Way
SL09/100D
408-743-4242  Voice
408-690-2327  Cell
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>>> Gary.Ison AT MAIL.STATE.KY DOT US 03/20/00 06:49AM >>>
Hi guys,

        My OS/390 MVS system people tell me that I am causing severe
problems with the RACF process by issuing "thousands" of enqueue requests
against the RACF database.  I'm running version 3.1.2.40 of the sever on an
OS/390 MVS version 2.7, 2  LPAR system.  I have the following tape pools
managed/used by ADSM processing (the usual stuff - migration, reclamation,
expiration, backup copying, etc.) with the indicated number of volumes.  The
problem really manifests itself when automated processing to perform storage
pool copies (both on and offsite) kick in and request scratch tapes.  I have
the "maxpr" value set to 2 and 3 with the backup operations and up to 8
drives allowed per device class.

Storage Pool Name      Device Class Name        # VOLUMES
--------------------------      ---------------------------
-----------------
-----------------
COPYPOOL                CART_3490E                    1933
COPYPOOL                CART_3490E                    1933
COPYPOOL-DRM       CART-3590                           18
DRM-OFFSITE            CART-3590                           51
MIGRAT_3490E          CART_3490E                    1934
STGPOOL_3490E       CART_3490E                         2
TAPE-STG-DRM         CART-3590                           30
TAPE-STG-Y2K           CART-3590                            2
3590-ARCHIVE           CART-3590                             1


        Is anyone familiar with this problem?  I would appreciate any hints
or help in resolving this.  We have not upgraded the ADSM server since mid
October and I can't seem to get an answer about when the problem became
"critical" but it has only been in the last couple of months that the system
people are asking me about it almost daily.

        Thanks for any information.

        Gary L. Ison
        Governor's Office for Technology
        101 Cold Harbor Drive
        Frankfort, Ky.   40601
        Phone:  (502) 564-8724
            Fax:  (502) 564-6856
E-mail: Gary.Ison AT mail.state.ky DOT us <mailto:Gary.Ison AT mail.state.ky 
DOT us>