RE: Format DASD?

The best way to to this is a D-IPL (initialize the system). This will wipe
all the data from your drives.The first thing the system will do is writing
0's all over the load source drive and since the AS/400 is a single level
storage machine the data will be gone, you can count on that. After that the
As/400 will install LIC and will ipl to DST. Next the drives you are going
to add will be cleared in the same way. Then install the OS and take it from
there.
Make sure you make a backup (two) and you should be all set...Look in the
backup and recovery guide..

Marc Paats

Paats_Marc@emc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: T. Jessica Miller [mailto:tealem@wrq.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:48 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Format DASD?


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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