RE: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400

In a single ASP environment (which is what a majority of systems are)
"scratching LIC" will effectively distroy all your data.

Al

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FYI - I would watch this space this year for some changes.

How adequate a method is really depends on your company and it's
regulatory requirements.

Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Bolhuis
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400

Al,

  While this does make it impossible to access the data with IBM
provided standard tools, this does not prevent un-erasure of the disks
and potential recovery of the data from them. Don't get me wrong, it
would be (IMHO) prohibitively expensive to do so but not theoretically
impossible. After a DOD level scrub it becomes even more difficult to do

so although, at least according to the DOD, still not impossible. This
is why disks that have ever contained 'top secret' data must *ALWAYS be
physically destroyed.

 - Larry

Al Barsa wrote:

The easiest solution is to follow the software installation manual and
"scratch LIC".  This assumed you have one user ASP.  Otherwise the

other

ASPs need to be collapsed and readded to ASP 1 first.

Al

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Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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