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CA Ideal Administrator

An Administrator is the highest authorization given to a CA Ideal user. An Administrator can perform any command or service, including all services governed by all other privileges. The commands are as follows:

PRINT Administrator

Authorizes control over the print environment. For example, it can allow the use of privileged commands that manage outputs.

DVW Administrator

Authorizes the use of functions such as executing the CATALOG dataview command.

CA Ideal User

Authorizes the user to sign on to CA Ideal and to use those commands that require the minimum privilege. Generally, a CA Ideal user can execute only those commands that affect the current session.

Systems

A system is a collection of applications with their associated developers and users, as defined by a CA Ideal Administrator. The system definition provides the name and description of the system, and identifies the files the system uses for storing definitions and object code.

The CA Ideal Administrator or a user with the proper authorization establishes a user's activity (authorization) in a system on the User Definition fill‑in. System authorizations must be established for each system the user is allowed to access.

One system authorization may imply other authorizations. The following chart illustrates how the assignment of an authorization in a system extends to commands and services governed by a lesser authorization.

An Administrator defines specific functions that are included in each authorization, for each site. An Administrator can assign different authorizations to all CA Ideal commands and to all options in commands. You can display the authorization levels in effect with the DISPLAY AUTHORIZATION OPTIONS (D ATZ OPT) command. Commands definitions are as follows:

CONTROL

Authorizes the user to create, establish, and edit program resources; delete, mark status, and update identification fill‑ins; and otherwise control all program, panel, and report definitions in a specific system.

UPDATE

Authorizes the user to update all the program, panel, and report definitions (except a program resource fill‑in and any identification fill‑ins) or display all the program, panel, and report definitions in a specific system.

READ

Authorizes the user to display and print the report, panel, and program definitions in a specific system.

UPDATE‑PNL (UPDATE PANEL)

Authorizes the user to update panel definitions in a system.

UPDATE‑RPT (UPDATE REPORT)

Authorizes to update report definitions in a system.

RUN‑PROD (RUN PRODUCTION)

Authorizes the user to run production programs in a system.

Note: If you try to execute a command or option for which you are not authorized, you will receive an error message.

When sign on occurs, a user is automatically associated with a CA Ideal system. If the user is authorized to use more than one system, the first system (alphabetically by collating sequence) is selected as the current system at signon (unless the user established a different system as the default current system in signon procedure).

Users can only display, edit, run, and so on, programs, panels, and reports in the current system. Dataviews, users, and members do not belong to a system.

Naming Conventions in Systems

Names of programs, panels, and reports only need to be unique in a system. For each system, a name must only be unique in entity type. For example, there can be a report definition and a program definition, both of which are named EX1, but two different report definitions or two different program definitions in the same system cannot be named EX1.