On August 1st, 2003, ITaP Infrastructure will streamline the mainframe account request process.
Why did the process change?After a thorough examination of the process, we found that ACID requests were being processed once or twice a week with several manual notification forms being generated afterwards. We also recognized that we were not receiving all of the necessary user signatures through the current Mainframe User Responsibility (Acknowledgement) Form.
This project was initiated to:
- Streamline the current process by eliminating manual processes where possible.
- Accelerate the ACID creation and notification process
- Ensure we receive the needed mainframe user’s signature
There will be 3 primary changes to the process:
- We are asking that Departmental Requesters capture the new mainframe user’s signature before submitting the Form 182. The Acknowledgement Form (this is the form that the user signs, agreeing to abide by University Mainframe policies) has actually been merged into the Form 182. This merge will ensure we capture the new user’s signature before creating the account, plus totally eliminate the need to audit for returned signatures.
- The MVS Security Administrator will process ACID-related requests on a daily basis.
- There will be an electronic notification sent out daily, stating what ACIDs have been set up, changed, or deleted.
For a step by step description of the new process