Good Day,

I am not sure if TSM loads the complete ACSLS inventory.  I don't think so
however.  However, TSM will only work with tapes that are checked in an
labled by TSM.  Therfore you do not need to worry about TSM overwriting
the other applications tapes.  Also if STK works similar to IBM's 3494,
then the tapes are broken into logical libraries (classes/catagories), and
each application only sees the tapes in its logical class.

Keith Davey


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Walker, Lesley R wrote:

> 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)
>
> --
> 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
>