Select Option 2 to Install Licensed Internal Code and Initialize System.
The Install LIC menu will provide five options. The first menu will give an Option 1 to Install LIC, Select Option 1. Stand-alone system or HMC managed partition or one Secondary partition:ĭo a D Manual IPL using a SAVSYS, full system save, or LIC Install CD. If a system is being scratched with the intention to return a system or discontinue use, RAID can be stopped on the LS RAID set prior to initialization to decrease the time the scratch process will take.Ĭhoose one of the methods below to erase all data from the system or partition: Note: The initialization of the Load Source (LS) can take hours to complete.
They may want to do this because they are discontinuing the system or just performed a Disaster Recovery test and want to destroy or remove all data on the system.
In some cases, a customer may wish to erase all data off their system. This document describes how to remove all data from your DASD on partitioned and stand alone systems.