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Authorities

DB2 groups privileges into hierarchical authorities, which you can assign just like privileges. Authorities ease the administrative burden of granting groups of privileges over and over again. These authorities are used in DB2:

The chart below shows how these authorities are grouped into a hierarchy. Each authority has its own privileges and all the privileges of any authority below it. For more details about privileges and authorities, see the IBM DATABASE 2 System and Database Administration Guide.