Mark: I agree with Ed. And, make sure they have done this before and preferably, have an automated solution that is proven in the marketplace. My partner and I are about to embark on another such project after the first of the year.
Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant www.lcmg.us -----Original Message----- From: Ed Gould <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 4:39 pm Subject: Re: CA Top secret to RACF conversion Mark: I do not care for consultants in general. ut when you have a project such as conversion like this I will say his. IRE 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 -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ ateExperts/ Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
