Administrative Functions of ASF › Acquiring and Distributing Administrative Authority

Acquiring and Distributing Administrative Authority

Acquire

Once the ASF system has been initialized and the default area has been specified, as the DBA, you should acquire administrative authority:

• Access the User Maintenance screen (either press [PF7] or type user in the upper left corner).
• Enter your user ID in the User Name field (your user ID must be established in the dictionary with authority for ASF).
• Select the Add User function.
• Access the Catalog Control screen by typing ctlg in the upper left corner.
• Select Give Administrator Authority and type your user ID In the User Name field.

Once you have acquired administrator authority, you should sign on to ASF as yourself and remove administrator authority from CULL DBA, since the user ID CULL DBA is common knowledge.

Alternatively, you can let CULL DBA keep administrative authority, but change the default password (DBAPASS).

Distribute

Any user with administrator authority can give and remove that authority from others. The DBA can distribute the administrative responsibilities for ASF by giving authority to other users on the DBA staff. Before users can be given administrator authority, they must:

• Be established in the dictionary with authority for ASF

  or

• Be entered in the catalog either through the Add User function on the User Maintenance screen or by signing on to ASF