Hi Hitesh,
Thank you for responding. I did make good use of the "smobjexport" and "smobjimport" commands back when I upgraded from r12.0 to r12.52, but unfortunately the "smobjexport" has been completely phased out in the r12.8. After much googling I was able to find the right XPSExport and XPSImport commands to export my entire r12.52 policystore and import it into my new r12.8 environment in the "parallel" mode.
Here's my steps, with the XPS commands:
1) export the current r12.52 policystore (the entire policystore data) - - > XPSExport r12.52-datastore.xml -xb -npass
2) Open up the "r12.52-policystore.xml" file and modify this entry: <PolicyData IsDumpExport="true"> and change this value to "true"> and change it to "false".
2) run the import command - - - > XPSImport r12.52-datastore.xml
3) the import command will fail and throw an error saying that the "siteminder" admin user ID already exists in the r12.8 policystore, and it will provide the exact LDAP unique ID value of the r12.52 "siteminder" admin user ID. What I do next is I open up the "r12.52-policystore.xml" file and search for this LDAP entry ID and then delete that "siteminder" admin account in the xml file then save the file so next time I do the XPSImport it will not have that account collision.
I am pretty sure there's a way to export the entire policystore without the "siteminder" admin account, but I am okay with identifying the entry and remove it from the XML file.
This is where I found the XPSExport command, I hope this helps others out there as well:
https://comm.support.ca.com/kb/xpsexport-for-policy-backup/kb000044799