Use the SYSIN commands for manual processing. You must use separate SYSIN commands for each volume you want initialized or erased. The format of the SYSIN commands and operator replies are shown in Figure 1.

>>-+-INIT-----------------------------+------------------------->
   '-ERASE--+-----------------------+-'   
            |        .-DSE------.   |     
            '-ERASE(-+-INIT-----+-)-'     
                     +-SHRED----+         
                     '-SHREDDSE-'         

>--VOLUME(volser-+-------------+-)------------------------------>
                 '-,new_volser-'     

>--+--------------------------------------------+--------------->
   |        .-SL----------------------------.   |   
   '-LABEL(-+-AL--| ANSI Label Parameters |-+-)-'   
            '-NL----------------------------'       

>--+--------------------------------------------+--------------->
   |            .-parmlib_default_medianame-.   |   
   '-MEDIANAME(-+-medianame-----------------+-)-'   

>--+-------------------+--+-----------------+------------------->
   +-RACK(rack_number)-+  '-OWNERTEXT(text)-'   
   '-POOL(pool_prefix)-'                        

>--+--------------+--------------------------------------------><
   '-VOL1(volser)-'   

ANSI Label parameters

|--+--------------+--+----------------------------+-------------|
   '-ACCESS(code)-'  '-+-LABELVERSION-+-(-+-3-+-)-'   
                       '-VERSION------'   '-4-'       

ERASE

Specify ERASE to security erase a volume and write a new label on it.

You must specify either ERASE or INIT.

ERASE(DSE|INIT|SHRED|SHREDDSE)

Use the ERASE operand on an ERASE command to tailor the ERASE action to be performed.

You can optionally specify the ERASE operand of the ERASE command to specify a value for ERASE to select the action to be performed by the tape drive for the ERASE action. The following values can be specified:

DSE

Specifies that a Data Secure Erase (DSE) should be attempted. This exploits the tape drive hardware capability to erase data from the volume. This is the default value for the ERASE operand.

INIT

Specifies that an ERASE action equates to an INIT action; no secure data erase is attempted and the volume is relabelled as if the INIT action had been requested.

SHRED

For encrypted volumes, this value specifies that the Data Key should be made unusable by the drive. For non-encrypted volumes the DSE action is attempted.

SHREDDSE

For encrypted volumes, this value specifies that the Data Key should be made unusable by the drive, and that any non-encrypted residual data on the volume should be subject to DSE. For non-encrypted volumes, the DSE action is attempted.