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(Optional) Delete a User

You can delete the suspended user to remove the user ID permanently. Delete the user only if you are sure that deletion does not compromise the security or integrity of your system.

Before you delete a user, consider the following:

• Verify that the user ID has been suspended long enough to accommodate infrequently run workloads, such as jobs that are run quarterly, biannually, or annually.
• CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret permit logical synchronization of user ID definitions. These definitions reside in security databases residing on remote systems using the Command Propagation Facility (CPF). Review your site policies to determine if you must also delete the user ID on remote mainframe systems.
• CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret allow controlled sharing of update information to one or more remote LDAP directories using the LDAP Directory Services (LDS) feature. Review your site policies to determine if you must also delete the user ID on remote user directories.
• CA LDAP Server may share database updates with remote systems.

Important! Deletion of a user is not reversible. Delete a user only if you want to delete that user from the database permanently.

Note: For CA ACF2, administrators must have ACCOUNT and SECURITY privileges to delete logonids. For CA Top Secret, administrators must have ACID(CREATE|ALL) authority for ACIDs within their scope to delete ACIDs.

Follow these steps:

1. Add the Investigator module to your dashboard, and click Start New Investigation.
2. Select Security from the drop-down list.
3. Select Definitions, Users.

   The list of users appears in the Investigator.

4. (Optional) Click the View Filter icon, if the search panel is not loaded.
5. Specify filter criteria to identify the user that you want to delete, and click Search.
6. Highlight the row that includes the user that you want to delete.
7. Highlight the row that includes the applicable user information.

   The Actions pane opens. Detailed information about the selected user appears in the Details pane at the bottom of the Investigator.

8. Click Delete User on the Actions pane. Click yes to confirm deletion.

You have suspended the user, reviewed and resolved dependencies to help ensure continuity of security, and permanently deleted the user from the ESM and CA Chorus.