We used the Vanguard Corporation to help with a project to convert one site's CA-TSS security to RACF. We also used the same corporation to convert another site from CA-ACF2 to RACF. We also use the Vanguard Security Administration and Reporting products to enhance the RACF security administration capabilities. We do not use the RACF SDSF panels for administration. These projects were initiated by the Ahold Corporation to support the security support for the companies it was providing computer support. These project eliminated the need to have expertise in all three mainframe security products. These projects were not initiated by HP.
Regards Otto Schumacher HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RACF and TSS in the Parallel Sysplex Hal, I think I would both respectively disagree and agree. Dang there I go hanging out on both sides of the fence. As a general matter of keeping things simple, sure going with just one security product would be a good idea. But in this case, the zNALC is going to have a very limited user base and the data set security layout should be able to be duplicated with some basic work (unless it is a mess ... in which case it represents an opportunity to clean things up and standardize). In the light of opportunity, it is a clear opportunity to beat CA over the head to fix licensing costs. It is always better to hold up the proverbial loaded gun when negotiating. Having RACF in-house give the opportunity to generally explore, compare, and gain some experience with RACF. Also, with all the conversion experts out there.. there are some tools to generally convert Top Secret into RACF without completing the rest of the conversion for the other LPARs. If there is a user provisioning product, it may be able to handle the added product as well. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group LLC w: 513.305.6224 On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:33:48 -0400, Perry Mayes <PERRY.MAYES@RCMP- > GRC.GC.CA> wrote: > >> >>Has anyone done this with success? >> >>Thanks >> > I worked with a previous installation that had a mixture of RACF and TSS > systems in a sysplex with no problems. Granted, this was a 'Bronzeplex' by > IBM's definition, so there was a minimum of datasharing going on (Logger > and GRS star). As far as I know this is still operating this way today. > > Dana > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
