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My $25K tape libraries - I have two - are less than three years old. I'm not about to toss them for new hardware. I may be able to make a case, though, to replace the tape IOA with one that does encryption as long as it wasn't too expensive ($3K or less). Or, as you noted, an LPP that adds encryption would be another option. In some ways it'd be better as then save file processing and other non-physical tape saves (virtual tape) could benefit. I could stomach a small cost for it but should IBM provide encryption in the OS it really should be free. A third option, I suppose, would be to run the data through the crypto card before writing to tape (or save file, etc.).
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