[Info-vax] Moving UAF records from Cluster to Cluster

[Rob Brown]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 at 15:14 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> On 7/26/2011 2:55 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>> In article<j0mndq$f0s$1 at dont-email.me>, Thomas Wirt 
>> <twnews at kittles.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I am migrating from a VMS Alpha cluster to a new VMS IA64 cluster. 
>>> I would like to be able to move individual accounts/records from 
>>> one cluster to the other. Is there a tool that would allow me to 
>>> move or export/import a user from one UAF to another without 
>>> reentering the data by hand or writing a script to take authorize 
>>> output and change it into an input command?

See Appendix B(?) _Building Common Files_ in the _OpenVMS Cluster 
Systems_ manual.  (True in my V7.1 manual set.  YMMV)

>> Why not just copy SYSUAF.DAT, possibly deleting any users you no 
>> longer need on the copy?
>> 
>
> This works ONLY if IA64 has similar resource requirements.  Those 
> requirements MAY BE the same but I would not count on it.  The VAX 
> to Alpha transition required tweaks to a lot of the UAF and SYSGEN 
> parameters for best performance.

I thought that was what the PQL_M* system parameters were for.


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