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Just use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<diskdevice>" and overwrite the disk with zeroes.
IBM has evaluated the priority of this enhancement proposal relative to other future product content and determined that this RFE will not be pursued for a future product release
"Historically, this has been viewed as a function to be performed through the management interface of the SAN device. Is there some justification why this need to be supported by AIX through in band I/O rather than a management function of the SAN storage subsystem ?"
Either our customers don't know this is available in their SAN subsystem or they are not the SAN administrators. This is a question we get frequently. For example there is no way to do a DOD standard erase of a SAS RAID array.
Historically, this has been viewed as a function to be performed through the management interface of the SAN device. Is there some justification why this need to be supported by AIX through in band I/O rather than a management function of the SAN storage subsystem ?
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #86311 in product IBM AIX.