[Fwd: System 38 education???]

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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• Subject: Re: System 38 education???
• From: Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:31:46 -0400
• Organization: NxTrend Technology - Canada

Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> 
> Hi, Neil:
> 
> Neil Palmer <NPalmer@NxTrend.com> on 09/15/97 10:09:11 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> @ INTERNET
> cc:
> Subject: Re: System 38 education???
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> > And there were differences in the order that the S/38 checked for
> > authority to an object.  Just going from memory here but I think:
> >
> > Authority to file X for user Bob
> >
> > S/38    AS/400
> > Bob *USE   Bob *USE
> > *PUBLIC *CHANGE   *PUBLIC *CHANGE
> 
> .. which is a pretty neat trick, since S/38 did not have a *USE
> authority.  (I know, I know but just for the sake of the joke.) :^)

Yeah, well - like I said "I Think, therefore I'm wrong".
You get the general idea.

> 
> > Actual authority for Bob to file X
> >
> > S/38    AS/400
> > Bob *CHANGE   Bob *USE
> >
> > I believe IBM's S/38 to AS/400 Migration Aid fixed this by checking
> > accumulated authorities to objects, and changing them when they were
> > restored to the AS/400, so that file X would have been restored (via
> the
> > Migration Aid) on the AS/400 as
> 
> Hmmm... not sure about this.  I am farly certain it was not considered
> when I was migrating S/38s to AS/400s, but that was before some of you
> were in Jr. High.  :^)  How would that work with adopted authority, I
> wonder?

I found the reference I was thinking of, and It looks like I was on the
right track:


SC09-1165-02
System 38 to AS/400 Migration Aid   User's Guide and Reference
Third Edition  October 1989

Page 26-20
Security
User profiles are migrated.  You must use the Migration Aid to migrate
user profiles before migrating any other objects.  Only the Migration
Aid adds the public and group authorities to the individual authorities
for migrated profiles.

...etc.



There's also a high level overview of the migration in:
GC21-9624-1
Migrating from System/38   Planning Guide.

Don't expect IBM to stock these gems though !    :-)


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