There may be extra migration steps, refer to RACF's program directory to find out. There were for each major RACF release change, and I would be surprised if there were now: pass phrase support may require extra fields in the RACF database.
2008/3/21, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Very Carefully... > > My feeling is the best way to move such pieces of data is to violate all > security and do it in a standalone mode without any other security packag > es > involved. This might mean having to have management or security people > looking over your shoulder at every keystroke. > > 1) Find out the volume, cylinder locations for your source and target, th > ey > match in size, right? > > 2) Shut down your old production system so there is NO chance of the RACF > > database being updated during its move. > > 3) IPL your rescue system (single volume disaster recovery system or your > > 3-5 volume maintenance system, some system where you have PRIVILEGES with > out > security). > > 4) Attach the source volume and the target volume to your running rescue > system. > > 5) Use the DEFINE MDISK command to define both source and target minidisk > s. > > 6) Use DDR to copy all cylinders from source minidisk to target minidisk. > > > 7) ACCESS both minidisks read-only (ACCESS 200 C/C, ACCESS 201 D/D). > > 8) Compare the contents as best as you can, same number of files, same > number of blocks, same MD5 Cyclical Redundancy Check? > > 9) Shut down your rescue system. > > 10) IPL your new production system. > > 11) Print out as much of your RACF database as possible and compare to th > e > printouts from before the move. (That's not part of your weekly reports? > Then make that step 0, print out all of your RACF database.) > > 12) Backup your old system to tape. > > 13) Several weeks later, securely erase the DASD from your old system. > > 14) Several months later, securely erase those backup tapes. > > /Tom Kern > /U.S. Dept of Energy > /301-903-2211 > > > > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:37:03 -0400, Hamilton, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > om> > wrote: > > >What is the best way to copy over my vm 5.2 racf database to my new vm > >5.3 system? > > > >Also what is the best way to migrate dirmaint and its directly from vm > >5.2 to 5.3? > > > >Thanks > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
