Re: Clear data on V3700 log files

Thanks Marc, but the auditors want it from the V3700 as they cannot speak
IBM i in any language.....
We already drained the drives from the V3700 and pushed them to the flash
with DST.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 9:08 AM Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le 31/10/2023 à 14:27, Jim Oberholtzer a écrit :

I need to clear the data on multiple V3700 units, (since replaced by

Flash)

and show the log files that report the data wipe. I cannot find anything
on Google or other search engines that do not go out of their way to keep
the data. I can remove the volumes but I have to prove they are wiped.

Suggestions?

Once attached to a dedicated partition (just for operations safety),
using SST, you can try to initiliaze and format them through SST

task #8 in
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=checklist-secure-data-erase-i

I don't know if there is a specific entry in system logs. In the past,
when I wrote a procedure for such a need, I was using screenshots
showing the volume serial numbers before the initialize operations, and
a couple of other screenshots at the beginning of the operation, and
immediately after. This was to prove that the proper disks were
initialized, and therefore wiped.

Our procedure was based to

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/initialize-disk-drives-so-all-data-erased-system
document (they write "Configure all the disk drives by adding them into
system ASP (ASP 1). This writes zeroes on the disk drives so that only
the LIC is loaded.").

FYI, I remember an old RPQ
(
https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_rp/3/ENUSP84513/index.html)

which was available several years ago and was able to write zeros on
unconfigured disks. But never used.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

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