Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400
From: Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:36:45 -0800
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This IBM document says to IPL off of a SavSys21 tape to initialize DASD
on an AS400 prior to decommissioning a system.

I am familiar with DOD specs of writing random strings of data in 7-9
passes to disks to really "delete" the data.  Alternately there are
system (PC based of course) that write strings of zeros to data areas.

Anyone know if just initializing the disks and adding them to an ASP
will be sufficient?

Jerry

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i , Larry Bolhuis
Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400 , rob

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