Comments on: AS/400 Scratched System Report

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The Most-Watched IT Questions: April 5, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:40:15 +0000

[...] 10. CharlieBrowne, TomLiotta, and HMSSL2K help a member with an AS/400 scratched system report. [...]

By: hmssl2k

hmssl2k — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:31:06 +0000

For my auditors, I did: #1 DLTLIB *ALL for non IBM libs, libs QUSRSYS, QGPL, QMPGDATA, QPFRDATA were also deleted. #2 initialize the disk again. #3 And gave them a print screen of the libs on the system when initialize is done.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:39:49 +0000

Scratch the system. Then type a document stating that the system was scratched and have it signed by the responsible persont. That’ll be a lot easier than trying to get a scratched system to create any kind of “report”.

Also, since “report” text can be generated by any word processor or text editor, there is no way to verify the validity of a printed “report”. A signed document is better. It may even include a statement that the system is no longer able to create “reports”.

Tom

By: leftnyc49

leftnyc49 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:44:28 +0000

Sorry we are not using a PC Workstation (So M/S word is out) but an IBM Twinaxe Terminal, I should be able to attach a local printer and perform the screen prints as you suggested.

Thank you for the info.

By: charliebrowne

charliebrowne — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:28:40 +0000

Is there an operating system still on the machine so you can you still signon?
If so, with DST you can get a display with the % of disk space used.
Since you do not have a printer, just cut and paste a view of the screen into a word document. (Ctrl_Alt & PrScn) to get your screen shot.

By: leftnyc49

leftnyc49 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:50:28 +0000

I perform the procedure on the AS/400 to remove all data from the DIskp bt perofrming an IPL D and then use DST to intialize all the disks, the question is I need some hardcopy proof for the Auditors that in fact the scratch was done.

Note: The attahced Twinaxe System Printer was disconnected and removed.