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Working with the CA Dataquery Administrator

Someone at your company should be appointed to perform CA Dataquery Administrator functions. These are the CA Dataquery Administrator tasks that concern you:

Adds and authorizes users

You must be added as a user and authorized for specific functions and modes.

Signs users off

You can be signed off the system by the CA Dataquery Administrator.

Maintains libraries

Your collection of queries and those of others are maintained by the CA Dataquery Administrator. Queries can be moved, deleted, or copied.

Implements security

Gives you access to data or restricts your access.

Maintains JCL

The CA Dataquery Administrator sets up procedures that you use if you want to execute a query offline.

Generates reports

Can report statistics on your activities and system operation.

Resolves problems

Knows your job and the system well enough to help you resolve problems in constructing a query or using the system and knows who to contact if serious system problems occur.

Overrides system defaults

If you need more system capacity to execute queries, see the CA Dataquery Administrator.

Authorizes batch execution

You must have special authorization to execute queries offline.

Authorizes use of queries that modify data

You must have special authorization and instructions from the CA Dataquery Administrator to write and use online queries that change data.

Sets print options

Can override your system defaults for printing query results. (You can override your own printer defaults with your User Profile. See Using Administrative Functions for details.)

Authorizes other administrators

Users can be authorized by the CA Dataquery Administrator to perform various administrative functions. If you are authorized, additional functions appear on your Administrative Menu. See Using Administrative Functions for more information. Also, see your CA Dataquery Administrator for operation instructions or see the CA Dataquery User Administrator Guide.