Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400

 I actually attended a meeting on this a few months ago and no it will not. You 
can still "recover" the data even though it was initialized. The only true was 
is the zeros written in 7 passes to meet the DoD 5220.22-M and probably in the 
future HIPAA requirement. IBM has an offering to do this, you can contact Brain 
Young at   Buy@xxxxxxxxxx  or Larry Leibovich at leibo@xxxxxxxxxx for more info.
 
And it will cost you!
 
 
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From: midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400


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