The add on products make this effortless but it's really not that hard to develop yourself. We're doing this now regularly as part of a large Top Secret to RACF conversion. Conceptually one should know the layout of the unload file, IRRDBU00 or TSSCFILE (which are somewhat architecturally similar) , find the records from which to clone, format the commands and apply them.
I have some of my old RACF to RACF cloning JCL still around somewhere, I'll go check my diskettes! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Cloning a RACF user profile On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:25:05 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Being confronted with similar issue, I would like to know if indeed >there is a sure-fire way of cloning a userid and all of its permissions >from an existing one? How would one go about that? > Not that I know of, unless you have one of the ISV RACF admin products like BETA88, Vanguard, Consul/RACF (purchased by IBM, now Tivoli RACF admin). That is one of the things I always liked about ACF2. You just copy a userid, or add a new one with the correct UID and everything works. Every shop I've ever been at (and I've been at a lot - especially when I was consulting), it was always a battle after my userid was added. A permit here, a permit there and eventually I got everything I needed. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
