Defining ABARS tapes to RACF

The output tape volumes generated by aggregate backup processing can be defined to RACF® during ARECOVER processing. This is done when the ABR record is created by the PREPARE, VERIFY, or EXECUTE functions and when the following conditions are met:
Note: Tapes containing DFSMShsm output files that are recovered by DFSMShsm are also RACF-protected at the recovery site when the preceding conditions are met.
ADDSD 'outputdatasetprefix.**'

If you use RACF DATASET class profiles instead of TAPESECURITY(RACF) to protect the tapes and create the DATASET profiles, you could define ADDSD, which specifies that tapes created during the aggregate backup process are protected. You need a profile for each aggregate group you have defined that uses a different aggregate group prefix.