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Maintaining User Definitions Online

Use the following CA Ideal commands to display, maintain, copy, and list existing user definitions. For more information about these commands, see the Command Reference Guide.

CREATE USER

Displays a fill-in panel that creates a user definition in the dictionary.

EDIT/DISPLAY USER

Displays an existing user definition and makes it the current entity.

PRINT USER

Prints a specific user definition.

DELETE USER

Deletes a user definition that is in history or test status. User definitions in production status must be marked to history before they can be deleted.

For important information about using the DELETE command to delete user definitions, see the notes following this table.

MARK STATUS USER

Marks a user definition's status to production or history. A user definition must be in production status before the user can sign onto CA Ideal.

DUPLICATE USER

Copies an existing user definition to the next version. The new definition becomes the current user definition, and the user fill-in displays for modification. You can modify the new user definition as long as the status is test. Until it is modified, the newly created version is identical to the previous version, including the name.

Note: You cannot copy a user definition to a new name with the DUPLICATE USER command.

DISPLAY/PRINT INDEX

Lists the name and status of each user definition currently in the dictionary. You can request an index for one or all users, with or without listing the related systems. Margin commands can be used to display, edit, delete, or mark the status of the displayed user definitions.

Note: Before deleting a user definition, be sure to delete any data members that exist for that user since the DELETE MEMBER command requires the Person Name or User ID from the user definition. If the user definition is deleted before the members that belong to that user are deleted, the members become impossible to delete with the CA Ideal DELETE command.

To determine whether the user has members, use the command:

DISPLAY INDEX MEMBER USER username

Then enter the DELETE line command for each member displayed and press Enter. (You could use the following command to delete a member but the DELETE MEMBER command must be repeated for each member.)

DELETE MEMBER memname USER username

Marking a user definition to history and deleting it using this DELETE command also removes the corresponding PERSON entity occurrence from the dictionary facility. If that user was authorized for any other CA products, those authorizations are automatically deleted.

To disable a user from CA Ideal without affecting that user's authorizations for other CA products, follow this procedure:

1. Duplicate the existing production version of the user to NEXT VERSION. This displays the next version of the user definition for editing.
2. While viewing the user definition fill-in for the new test-status version (in edit mode), erase all CA Ideal privileges and press Enter.
   The following message displays:

   ADUEDP11 - Please enter CA Ideal privilege(s)
   

3. Ignore the preceding message and mark the new version of the user definition to production. The CA Ideal editor does not allow the update unless there is at least one SYSTEM related to the USER definition. Without any CA Ideal privileges, signon to CA Ideal with this user ID results in the following error message:

   IDADIDIN05E - USR xxx has no signon authorization for CA Ideal
   

The Datadictionary batch utility, DDUPDATE, also removes CA Ideal authorization (transaction 1003 UNRL).