Consolidating multiple iSeries systems...

Management has chosen to get off the mid-range and go to .NET based systems.
I have been tasked with finding out what issues there will be to consolidate
each of the iSeries data on one system for historical look-up purposes.

Fortunately, our data libraries are uniquely named, so that shouldn't be a
problem. Unfortunately, our program libraries are named the same, and there
are programs with the same name but different base source, but I think I
have a way around that.

So far I have come up with a number of issues, in no particular order:

1) Will need to analyze all of our Robot jobs to determine what is
company specific and still required.

2) Will need to set up user profiles for each user and resolve the few
cases of duplication.

a. Is there a way to automate this?

b. Will need a way for certain users to go from company to company.
(Multiple profiles?)

c. Will need a way for programmers to go from company to company.
(Software controlled from command line?)

3) Need to create device descriptions and resolve duplicate names. I'm
thinking as much as possible the device names should be the same as they are
now.

4) What to do with job descriptions in QGPL that have library lists.
Have multiple QGPLxx libraries and control it by library list? I think QGPL
might hold more issues than are obvious.

5) Programs with hard coded library names.

I am looking for any other ideas that you might have. Especially if you have
already had to do this process and can warn of precipices that are ahead of
me…?

Thank you,

Dave