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Checking Authority to Access a Particular Terminal

How to Check a User's Authority

When you implement autotasks, users can access only preassigned tasks at particular terminals. If you want to prevent users from accessing terminals that are not associated with a specific task, you must check their authority to use these terminals.

You can do this by:

1. Establishing installation codes that authorize users to access particular physical terminals.

   For example, you can specify a physical terminal ID, logical terminal ID, or VTAM node name as the attribute value for INSTCODE in the user or system profile.

2. Checking a user's INSTCODE attribute when the user signs on to a terminal.

   Note: For more information, see Using Installation Codes.