My previous company went through a TS to RACF conversion back in '05.
We engaged IBM to do aid the effort and based on my experience and
results I would recommend them. There are other companies that can and
would do this conversion so it might pay to shop around. I have known
of a few (no doubt small) shops that tackled this themselves. It is
theoretically possible to achieve this in-house.
I'd recommend assessing your own environment in view of the following
potential variables.
1. How well does the present staff know RACF, meaning 'really' know RACF.
2. Assuming talent is present, does the present staff have the time?
3. How well does the present staff 'intimately' know the content of the
Top Secret database? TS allows some liberties that RACF does not.
Significant complications can arise.
4. Are the shop exit-free? If not, is the author(s) still available?
Shooting from the hip, even with 4 'yes' answers above, I'd still hire
it out.
On 12/19/2013 7:37 PM, Mitch wrote:
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
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From: Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net>
To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
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, craig.p...@fotlinc.com 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) <z...@cdc.gov> 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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