What would be the minimum acceptable value for CYCLES(x) to ensure data was not retrievable?
________________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:36 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Shark Retiring You can try using ICKDSF and write patterns of data on it to clear what was there. This may not be good enough for some organizations but is good enough for most. You can try something like the following: TRKFMT UNIT(xxx) NVFY ERASEDATA CYLRANGE(0000,xxxx) CYCLES(x) Aria. On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:52:29 -0500 Mary Zervos said: >We are about to retire a 2105-F20 Shark, which will be resold. The best >way to totally delete all our data from the Shark? > >Thanks, > >Mary Zervos >Systems Programmer >Binghamton University >
