Secure Erasure of Database Files

When you create the Security Center database, the SENSITIVEDATA attribute is automatically set to TRUE for the

  • Database control file

  • Database audit file

  • Database dump files

  • Data set files and set files

To ensure that all areas of the file are overwritten when the file is removed

  • Ensure that continuation packs of the family on which the file resides, are present when it is overwritten.

  • Avoid a LOADER cold start of the unit on which the file resides, until the overwrite has completed.

  • Avoid using the LOADER REMOVE command to remove a SENSITIVEDATA file.