RE: How to erase all data on a Power server so it can be transported safely -- MIDRANGE-L

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I forget but is one of those new servers coming in prior to your migration?
Might not be a bad idea to do a dry run to ensure you know how to do all the steps in that BRMS recovery report. There's a lot, initially, which refers back to other sources for setting up your RAID, etc. Therefore a practice run might not be bad.

Practicing the printer overrides necessary on the STRRCYBRM to get the three reports generated to print to PDF is a good idea.
Figuring out how to bring your system back out of restricted state (without letting users back in) so that you can download the PDF files to your PC is also good.
Ensuring that you ran your STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(...) SBMJOB(*NO) OMITS(*IGNORE) with the right options (like omits(*ignore)) is good.
Finding out beforehand that certain directories may have been flagged with the following is good:
CHGATR OBJ('/mydir') ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO)
We flag /QFPNWSSTG this way, and may change it to *YES for data migrations.
There are a lot of IBM temp or log directories set this way. And that's ok, you don't "need" the data in those directories.

Rob Berendt

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