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Oct 20, 2026
I am a Mainframer: Niall on Mainframe Security, Learning by Doing, and the Future of z/OS
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8:07Steven DickensHOST
So what would some of those projects look like? You mentioned security side.
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8:12Steven DickensHOST
Is that penetration testing? Is that how to migrate to new versions of RACF, ACF2, Top Secret? Is it all of the above? What does a day in the life look like of what you're doing for your clients?
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8:28NiallGUEST
So I currently I've moved away from one client who was an insurance company and we ran a kind of security engineering service for them.
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8:37NiallGUEST
But it was more on the kind of rack F admin side.
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8:39NiallGUEST
It was it wasn't so technical, but I still oversee support for colleagues who are running that with some of our kind of newest staff.
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8:48NiallGUEST
um i've moved on to a kind of higher level uh more i guess difficult security and engineering uh service work uh with a major retailer in the uk um but then i'm also supporting uh esm migration so we've got um you know we've had previously uh uh some some uh you know for example i delivered some acf2 um to rack f training to help people understand the difference and kind of moving from one to the other but I'm now working on a kind of a table, which is like almost a cheat sheet.
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9:17NiallGUEST
And it's just, what is the equivalent command between ACF2, RACF, and TSS or top secret? Because I think it's really important that, you know, we never know in the future if someone's gonna move from RACF to ACF2, from ACF2 to TSS to TSS, and, you know, potentially in a circle.
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9:33NiallGUEST
And so we need to make sure they're equipped with the skills to know that.
The Real Cost of AI Hasn’t Shown Up Yet

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3:07Richard LunaGUEST
That was NetMagic.
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3:09Richard LunaGUEST
That then turned into NetMagic Pro, which was a help desk utility that went across Novell, Windows, Linux, RACF, ACF2, and it was a password resetting tool.
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3:24Richard LunaGUEST
The front desk, so for each OS, we'd had a process that would log in and pull the user list.
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3:32Richard LunaGUEST
And then the help desk could type in, oh, your name is Tony, T-O-N-Y.