USER

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USER

Purpose

An occurrence of this record represents a user or group defined within a CA IDMS security domain. Users and groups are defined by the same record so that privileges on resources—whether to a user or a group—can be granted and enforced in the same manner. Note that if the occurrence represents a group, there is no associated password or user profile.

Access

IDMSSECU subschema
Location mode: CALC on AUTHID
Owner of the USER-GROUP and GROUP-USER sets

Record elements

Element name	Picture and usage	Description of contents
AUTHID	PIC X(18)	The authorization ID of a user or group.
TYPE	PIC X(1)	Identifies the authorization ID as representing a user or group: 'G'—Group
STATUS	PIC X(1)	Current status of the authorization ID: 'A'—Active 'D'—Logically deleted
PASSWORD	PIC X(8)	The encrypted form of the plain text password, or: Binary zeros, when TYPE field is 'U' and the password unassigned or null Spaces, when TYPE field is 'G' or when TYPE field is 'U' and AUTHID is 'SYSTEM'
NAME	PIC X(32)	The full name associated with the user, if specified; initialized to spaces when not specified for the user or when the authorization ID represents a group.
DESCRIPTION	PIC X(40)	Textual information that the security administrator may associate with the authorization ID but that has no special meaning to the security system; initialized to spaces when not specified for the user or group.
FILLER	PIC X(2)	(Reserved—initialized to spaces.)
PROFILENAME	PIC X(18)	The name of the user profile assigned to this authorization ID; initialized to spaces for all groups and when not specified for a user.
FILLER	PIC X(4)	(Reserved—initialized to spaces.)
FILLER	PIC X(8)	(Reserved—initialized to binary zeros.)
GTIME	PIC X(64) USAGE BIT	(Reserved—initialized to binary zeros.)
PTIME	PIC X(64) USAGE BIT	(Reserved—initialized to binary zeros.)
CTIME	PIC X(64) USAGE BIT	Time created.
UTIME	PIC X(64) USAGE BIT	Time of the last update.
CUSER	PIC X(18)	ID of the user who created the user definition.
UUSER	PIC X(18)	ID of the user who last updated the user definition.
FILLER	PIC X(16)	(Reserved—initialized to spaces.)

Special Record Occurrences

These are special occurrences of the USER record:

Group 'PUBLIC'—created on the first grant of privilege to PUBLIC (group 'PUBLIC' cannot be dropped):
- AUTHID: 'PUBLIC'
- TYPE: 'G'
- STATUS: (space)
- PASSWORD: (spaces)
- NAME: (spaces)
- DESCRIPTION: 'System Category bit map owner'
- PROFILENAME: (spaces)
- CUSER: 'SYSTEM'
- UUSER: 'SYSTEM'
- Other fields as noted in the USER record description above
User 'SYSTEM'—created by the first CREATE RESOURCE CATEGORY statement (user 'SYSTEM' cannot be dropped):
- AUTHID: 'SYSTEM'
- TYPE: 'U'
- STATUS: (space)
- PASSWORD: (spaces)
- NAME: (spaces)
- DESCRIPTION: 'PUBLIC Group'
- PROFILENAME: (spaces)
- CUSER: 'SYSTEM'
- UUSER: 'SYSTEM'
- Other fields as noted in the USER record description above