Consulting assistance is certainly a good idea, but the coin has two sides. My shop converted from ACF2 to RACF before I came here in the mid 90s. Without being familiar with the environment, the consultant employed a fairly mechanical conversion that attempted to carry forward as much as possible from a 'rule based' view of the world to a profile architecture. To this day we lug along profiles and Groups that seem to have no other justification than expressing something once embodied in ACF2. No one today can recall, for example, why we have so many Groups just within Tech Support.
If you cede the work to someone else, try to maintain common sense control. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Mark Zelden <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 12/19/2013 11:33 AM Subject: Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:03:09 -0600, [email protected] wrote: >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245677.pdf > >There is also an IBM Tool, which you must license that can help with the >migration. There are also Technical Services which can be contracted to >help, if that is of interest. > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:47:56 +0000, Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/OCIO/ITSO) (CTR) <[email protected]> wrote: >We did this a few years ago and I ended up writing a great deal of REXX code to read in Top Secret reports and then create the appropriate RACF commands. It was not an overly painful conversion, but we did spend a couple of months testing out the process on our test system. I don't have the REXX code any more due to our mainframe getting shut down about 18 months ago, but the REXX code was not that hard. Just test - A LOT. > I don't often say "hire a consultant", but this is one of the few cases I do recommend at least looking at some of the companies that offer these services. They have the experience in doing these conversions and hopefully know about caveats or situations you may have not even thought of. They also have the tool sets like the ones Todd mentioned above they have developed from an array of clients (not just one). Weigh the cost of developing the tools yourself and the risk of "missing something" or extra time in testing etc. against whatever the consulting company wants to charge you. It's also a good opportunity to create your RACF DB with some standards and perhaps get rid of years of shoe horning in profiles / rules to "make things work". This takes more effort than just listing profiles and creating equivalent RACF commands. Regards, Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
