Have you discussed this requirement with your IT Security Advisor? There are any number of solutions that claim to erase disks in accordance with DOD requirements however there are only a very few that have been independently certified by an accredited government test center and gained formal certification.
You'll find that these days many federal agencies, banks, insurance companies will insist that the disk is erased with a certified solution. Therefore, I would suggest that you confer with your security department as to how exactly you are meant to erase the disks to see if it's their requirement that a certified solution is required or not in accordance with any state or federal legislative requirements that your company is required to comply with. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 5:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Clearing out DASD > > I have a need to do a DOD type clearing of some dasd before > it is returned to the vendor. > > I found the CBT Tape entry (737) but was wondering if there > is another one out there that will write Binary 0's and 1's > for the number of times I specify? I do not have DITTO. > > Thanks. > > Lizette > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
