If you mean erase data from the cartridges I would suggest to use FATS/FATAR if 
you have it.  

Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  > Ed Gould wrote:
>> I always used IEBDG to create the binary zero blocks of data. I don't 
>> have the control cards handy but its a quick 5 minute read and 1 
>> minute in ISPF.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, and I don't remember 3590 hardware 
details, but for my 3480 cartridges I've always used EXCP with CCW 
opcode X'97' - Data Security Erase, chained to one Erase Gap. Works like 
a charm.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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