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Privileges Needed to Use Job Management Manager

The manager provides commands to create and control jobs, and management commands to control the operation of the manager system itself. In general, you need either SYSPRV or OPER OpenVMS privileges to issue the manager management commands (some management commands require other privileges as well). General users can perform operations on their own jobs, and on other jobs based on OpenVMS privileges and identifiers.

There are three types of access that users can have to jobs:

• READ access permits you to see information about a job and to synchronize other jobs to that job.
• EXECUTE access allows you to control how a job runs, but not what it does.
• WRITE access allows full control of job characteristics.

Your OpenVMS privileges and your UIC, the OpenVMS identifiers and UIC associated with the job, and identifiers that you hold, determine the access that you have to a job.

You have READ access to a job if at least one of the following is true:

• Your user identification code (UIC) matches the job’s UIC.
• Your group UIC matches the job’s group UIC.
• SYSPRV privilege is enabled.
• BYPASS privilege is enabled.
• READALL privilege is enabled.
• You hold the READ, WRITE, or EXECUTE identifier for that job.

You have WRITE access to a job if at least one of the following is true:

• Your UIC matches the job’s UIC.
• Your group UIC matches the job’s group UIC and you have GROUP privilege enabled.
• SYSPRV privilege is enabled.
• BYPASS privilege is enabled.
• You hold the WRITE identifier for that job.

You have EXECUTE access to a job if at least one of the following is true:

• You have WRITE access to the job.
• You hold the EXECUTE identifier for the job.

To use the general commands of the manager on remote nodes of the network, you must have an authorized account on the remote node.

For a description of identifier-based access to jobs, see Identifier-Based Access to Jobs in the chapter "Getting Started with Job Management Manager."