Hello Everyone,
I would suggest the ICKDSF REVAL or INSTALL for real DASD (not supported on the 1750 - DS6800). Seems to me that ICKDSF INIT with purge and some other parameters would do what you want. Or reformat the Ds6800 using the Storage Manager software. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of clifford jackson Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD Catherine, can you send me that information also i am retiring an IBM DS6800 DASD set. offline at [email protected] > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:00 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD > To: [email protected] > > Depends upon which type of DASD you have. If you're using a SAN, use > the SAN's manager tools to reformat the DASD, 3 passes will do. Or, you > can have IBM come in and scrub it for you. Your regular customer > engineer can perform the reformatting at the SAN level for you. If you > truly require DoD-level cleansing and a certificate stating as such, > another division of IBM can come in and do that for you I can send you > the particulars off-list if you want them. It is expensive. > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Peter E. Carrier > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Scrubbing DASD > > Hi Folks, > > Haven't been on here in a while. I have missed you guys ;) > > MIT will finally be shutting down it's zVM systems that have been > running > remotely at Blue Hill Data's datecenter for the past couple of years. I > > am looking into what I'll need to do to do a reasonably thorough DASD > scrubbing, thorough enough to satisfy the new privacy regulations, etc. > I > assume I'll be using ICKDSF to do the dirty work, and am looking for > suggestions for which commands, how many passes, etc. to do. > > Thanks in advance! > > Peter ________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started. <http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3>
