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UAF migration for some users

mrityunjoy — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:09:51 GMT

Hi ,

I need to create one command procedure which will scan the sysuaf and genarate a file with command procedure to create the same user in another system. This command procedure will include the granted identifier as well.

This is required as my requirement is to migrate some of users to another system,not all.

Regards.

Re: UAF migration for some users

Bob Blunt — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:31:57 GMT

Why make it more difficult than you need to? Make a BACKUP saveset of SYSUAF.DAT and RIGHTSLIST.DAT from your source system and move that to the second system. Then either mark the unneeded accounts as DISUSER or remove them.

bob

Re: UAF migration for some users

mrityunjoy — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:41:08 GMT

Hi Bob,

We have almost 700 accounts in the server, out of which I need to migrate 65 accounts.

Regards.

Re: UAF migration for some users

John Gillings — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:02:03 GMT

If you don't want to delete the records you don't need, create an empty UAF and copy the ones you want. SYSUAF is just an RMS file.

$ OPEN/READ UAF SYSUAF

$ OPEN/READ/WRITE NEWUAF YOURUAF

repeat for each key you want (build a procedure to do it)

$ READ/KEY="SOMEUSER" UAF UAFRECORD

$ WRITE NEWUAF UAFRECORD

$ CLOSE UAF

$ CLOSE NEWUAF

now take the new UAF file to the target system and use MERGE to merge it with the UAF over there.

Re: UAF migration for some users

mrityunjoy — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:23:05 GMT

Thanks..how shall I merge newuaf with existing one in another system.

Re: UAF migration for some users

Kris Clippeleyr — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:00:06 GMT

You might want to have a look at QUAI

at http://www.quadratrix.be/quai.html

If properly installed

QUAI/EXTRACT user1

will extract the information about "user1" from the SYSUAF into a file ( user1.quai )

Copying the file "user1.quai" to the target system and using QUAI thus:

QUAI/INSERT user1

will insert the necessary info in the SYSUAF of the target system

Hope this helps.

Regards.

Re: UAF migration for some users

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:22:59 GMT

>> how shall I merge newuaf with existing one in another system

$ CONVERT /MERGE /STAT /EXCEP=bad.dat new.dat SYSUAF

Note 1) you also want to do this for RIGHTSLIST

Note 2) I like the DCL OPEN/READ loop, but you can probably also just use SEARCH/STAT/OUT user1,user2,

You may want to use [user1], [user2] or "user1 ", "user2 " to avoid false matches

Hein.