Format DASD?

["T. Jessica Miller" <tealem@xxxxxxx>]

I have a system that needs to be 'wiped clean' and I do not see the best way to
do this.  Is there a way to 'format' the drive so that I can do a fresh install
of OS/400 and be rid of all the old libs, usrprfs, docs, etc.?

Thanks!

Jessica

"Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I recently got a mail from a user of one of my tools and he wants it to
> accept the CCSID of 5035.  Now, the only place I am moving data from their
> machine is into a temp file that I create on the fly in QTEMP.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of how this can be done?  I looked into the CCSID
> parameter of CRTPF, but it says it ignores this field on *DATA type files.
>
> Would the ICGDTA keyword have anything to do with it?  It wasn't quite clear
> what this does from the help text.
>
> I guess what is happening is when I copy their data into my temp file,
> certain text must be getting corrupted since I am not using DBCS files.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bradley V. Stone
> BVS/Tools
> http://www.bvstools.com
>
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T. Jessica Miller
WRQ Technical Engineer
WRQ Inc, Makers of Reflection and Express Software


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