Restructuring companies calls for mass updates in RACF

Situation:
This is another relatively common situation: As a result of reengineering, the company is being restructured, and two departments are being combined to form a new department with extended responsibilities.
Everyone working in each of the original departments now has to take over additional responsibilities, i.e. those that were originally limited to the other department. This means that everyone in the new department needs additional access rights to go with the new responsibilities.

Complications:
The RACF Administrator needs to make two different sets of identical changes to the authorizations of two large groups of people. This involves a lot of work, and is bound to take a long time.

Solution:
Using an editor, the RACF administrator can solve the problem by putting together the necessary RACF command sequences for each group, copying them, and then redefining them for each of the user IDs concerned. First, however, a list has to be drawn up of all the users in a particular default group, each of the groups representing the original department, no easy task in RACF.
The ideal solution is offered by the mass update function of the Beta 88 zSecurity Administrator . Very easy to use, user lists can be obtained in the shortest possible time by specifying the default group, for example, as a selection criterion. All the necessary RACF commands can be generated just as quickly and can either be executed immediately, or collected in a special file where they can be checked and, if necessary, modified first.
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