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  3. January 2007

Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i

You can minimize the leftovers if you have just 1 big file in 1 library (not counting the OS)...
What kind of top secret information is left lurking in the OS after everything else has been deleted?? 

--Paul E Musselman
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Just to be cantankerous - a physical file has a bunch of overhead
stuff that will never be touched by this process - every data space
has a segment header, etc. Even stuff in the IFS contains this stuff
- so there'd be SOMEthing always left over that is not wiped.

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