remember that the only way to restore/retreive data (i think)
that is on any adsm tape is to have the database.  So delete the volume
,and if you can't degauss the data tapes, maybe you can degauss
the db backups.  (just throwning ideas out) i know its not a good one :)

shawn

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Shawn Drew
Tivoli IT - ADSM/TSM Systems Administrator
shawndo AT tivoli DOT com


Mogamat Gertse <wcmge AT WOOLWORTHS.CO DOT ZA>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/19/2001
07:20:10 AM

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     if you are running tsm or adsm you can try the following command

     DELETE VOL ***** DISCARD=YES

     (***) = volname


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Subject: deleting data of tape cartridges
Author:  uwe.schonacher (uwe.schonacher AT ECB DOT INT) at MM
Date:    19/03/2001 11:02 AM


Hi Chaps,

does anybody know a method of deleting data on tape cartridges (3590)
without rewriting and destroying them? We need to wipe out round about 200
tape cartridges an looking for a efficient method to do this.

Thanks
Uwe