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Region Considerations

When you make your region considerations, ask yourself the following:

• What are your security needs?
• Do you have several CA Ideal regions sharing a common security environment and want to allow or deny access to CA Ideal on an environmental basis?
• Do you want to secure particular transactions?
• Do you want to allow access only at certain times of the day, to certain terminals, and so on?

All of the following options are possible with or without an external security package (although the external security package makes some options simpler to implement). The most important thing is to define your needs.

1. Interface CA Ideal signon with signon to the TP monitor.

   Establish a link between a security package signon-id or TP monitor ID and the CA Ideal user definition.

2. Secure each CA Ideal environment on a user basis.

   Through an interface with an external security package, you can assign a name to each CA Ideal environment or a group of environments and grant access to the environment on an individual basis. Without a security package, you need to secure CA Ideal transactions.

3. Define group definitions.

   You can create a CA Ideal user definition that behaves like a profile and you can add aliases for each TP monitor user. With this method, any time a change occurs, you only need to modify one user definition.

4. Define default users.

   You can assign a CA Ideal user definition to use with a particular CA Ideal transaction or for the entire CA Ideal environment in the event that an undefined user tries to signon.

5. Limit users to a single session.

   You can allow or deny the TP monitor user access to multiple CA Ideal sessions under a single region through the external security package or in CA Ideal.

The remainder of this chapter contains information about the options and features available to allow you to fulfill your requirements.