Unicenter CA-Scheduler Job Management for VSE User Guide

2.3 Maintaining User Records
2.3 Maintaining User Records
All Unicenter CA-Scheduler users can display userid directories. All users
logged on with write passwords can change their own passwords and userid
descriptions. But only users with Manager authority can maintain all user
records.
User records control who does what with Unicenter CA-Scheduler. Only users
who are defined in Unicenter CA-Scheduler database can logon to that
product. Unicenter CA-Scheduler security goes a step further: user records
limit what people can do with Unicenter CA-Scheduler.
This topic covers what has involved in maintaining user records in the
Unicenter CA-Scheduler database. The topics explored next include:
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User authority levels
The role of passwords
Defining users
Altering, deleting, and displaying user records
2.3.1 User Authority Levels
If you have already become familiar with maintaining stations, you will notice
that Unicenter CA-Scheduler handles these tasks in similar ways.
Three levels of authority control what defined users can do with Unicenter
CA-Scheduler. The lists following describe the basic capabilities of each
authority level.
General
Authority is intended for end users, restricting:
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The stations they can connect to
The database records they can maintain
The schedules they are authorized to monitor and control
General users are also allowed to display and alter their own
passwords and define online documentation.
Supervisor
Authority allows its users to:
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Define, maintain, display, and control
All schedules
Jobs defined at stations for which each user is authorized
Define online documentation
Display and alter
Their own passwords
All staged JCL while connected to station 39
Display all other database records
Connect to just those stations listed on its userid
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