Mark:
I do not care for consultants in general.
But when you have a project such as conversion like this I will say
this.
HIRE a Good consultant it is well worth the time and the money.
Ed
On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Mark Zelden wrote:
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
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