On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:43:47 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:

>I don't know, but "AIM level 3" is approx. 12 years old. I did the 
>conversion on OS/390.
> So, is there any reason to stay on AIM level 0? What one would wait for?

The same sort of things people wait on for other migrations or implementing
enhancements.  Sometimes it takes a compelling reason to change
and / or go through a migration.  Many people still live by the credo "if
it ain't broken, don't fix it".  

In my client's case, I talked to the RACF team about it years ago because
of the performance benefit it would have in the environment due heavy
z/OS unix usage.  I could just never get them to do it - but now I have
ammunition since one sysplex uses bpx.default.user.   So the migration
is already on their plate after we finish off z/OS 1.13 migrations in a
few weeks. 

It's been about 8 or 9 years since I looked, but I recall an issue with the
number of STC userids sharing UID(0) at the time.  Not a big deal, but
it is something they would have to change and has to be tested.  Things
now may not be as bad as they were back then due to changes over
the years from UID(0) in favor of various BPX.* RACF profiles like
BPX.SUPERUSER and/or UNIXPRIV.    

Regards,

Mark
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