Does anyone have experience of using an ACSLS-controlled STK library and
sharing it with other applications?

Our customer is very concerned about the possibility of Application A being
able to read/overwrite tapes belonging to Application B, and the question
has been asked:

Most (all?) tape management systems have the ability to automatically
load the entire ACSLS database into their own database and this is where
the main risk arises.  Does TSM have this ability?

They will be implementing access control, but it's not in place yet.  Can I
assure them that TSM will not be a security risk?

(Version 3.7.3 on Solaris)

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Lesley Walker
Lesley Walker
Distributed Systems Services, EDS New Zealand
Lesley.Walker AT nz.eds DOT com
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with
18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons,
computers in the future by the year 2000, may have
only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons"
    Popular Mechanics, March 1949