Hmmmm - if you can't ship them, what's the point of encrypting them. I guess they could get stolen from your site. Why can't you ship them? That says to me you don't believe the encryption is very safe or effective!
When I was at P&H and they decommissioned our z/OS datacenter almost 2 years ago, we took all of the our tapes that were in TMS and not being saved for government requirements, and paid Iron Mountain to shred them. They did it by weight. I think we shredded maybe 10-15,000 3490 carts. All the vendor product tapes on carts got put in the dumpster. I think we through away at least 3 or 4 dumpsters worth full. Eric ---- "Van Dalsen wrote: > On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple > density(green) Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them, > company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship > who is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted, > so how do you destroy them, in a eco friendly way if you cannot even > sell them on. I personally think that the companies that sell them > should take them back without charge and do the destroying under > supervision of internal auditors of the companies involved. > > Any experience from you guys that have gone thru similar situations? > > Regards > Herbie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM > Sent: 08 Februarie 2008 08:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Data Erasure Products -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
