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  3. January 2007

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




Now those things wouldn't be left if you deleted them now would they? :-)
- Larry
I don't know enough to say whether a deleted user profile actually makes that disk space available for your file to expand and overwrite. Same for other objects other than what we think of as files & programs. 
Do you know? (not trying to be cute about this..)
jim



Jim Franz wrote:

What kind of top secret information is left lurking in the OS after
everything else has been deleted??



<hypothetical>
user profiles?  configuration? encryption keys? anything to be used
to attack the replacement system?
jim






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