John, OpenTech Systems also has a tape erase utility that will erase tapes which is part of our Tape/Copy product. If the tapes are in the TMC, the utility can check the TMC to make sure that the tape is in scratch status. This is done to help prevent us from erasing a non-scratch tape.
Erase Tape Utility The Tape Security Erase job can be used to erase all data on one or more tapes. The data can be erased from either the physical load point, or from right after the VOL1 label, if there is one (preserving the VOL1 label). The data will be erased to the end of the physical tape using the Data Security Erase (DSE) command. Don Bolton Director Technical Services www.OpentechSystems.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Benik Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Data erase on stacked backend tapes. We have the need to erase any residual data on some stacked backend vsm tapes. I've heard you can do this with FATS/FATAR but wondered if there is any other method to do this? Everything else I have seen seems to require the tapes be added to your tape management system and even then there is some doubt that this will work. Thanks John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
