5. MICF Administration › 5.1 Tasks Performed During Installation › 5.1.2 Authorization Assignments

5.1.2 Authorization Assignments

To access Authorization Assignment, choose option 5 on the CA
MICS Workstation Facility (MWF) primary menu.  Then choose
option 3 on the CA MICS Administrator Facility (MAF) menu.

CA MICS authorization assignment is the application security
facility provided by the CA MICS Workstation Facility (MWF).
Use it to limit access to the MWF applications (for example,
the CA MICS Administrator Facility) or to limit the use of
facilities within the MWF applications.  You can select
Authorization Assignment from the System Administrator
Functions menu of the CA MICS Workstation Facility menu.

If you are using the authorization facility, you must
authorize new users (or groups of users) in order for them to
have access to MICF.  You also have the option of allowing
selected users (or groups of users) to perform the following
MICF administration tasks:

o  Maintain the shared inquiry catalog.
o  Maintain the shared inquiry output catalog.
o  Maintain the shared MICF options.
o  Maintain MICF inquiry production reporting.

For example, you may authorize all users to use MICF, but
only the CA MICS administrator to have access to the
CA MICS administrator facility.  Since the operations staff
is running your daily jobs, you may authorize them to add
output to the shared inquiry output catalog.  You may also
authorize the help desk staff to add inquiries to the shared
inquiry catalog in order to facilitate their assistance to
users.  Finally, you might authorize selected user groups to
access the MICF production reporting administration option so
that user groups can maintain their own MICF inquiry
production reporting.

You can also use MWF authorization to mark selected users
(for example, managers) for special treatment by the CA MICS
online facilities.  You can cause these "reports-only" users
to skip directly to the MICF Reports and Graphics option for
online review of production reports and other inquiry
outputs.  Using this option, managers can review current
production reports with a single panel interaction (that is,
they can select CA MICS and be immediately viewing reports).
In addition, "reports-only" users are presented with reduced
function inquiry output replay menus that list only color
graphics replay and printed report browse options (that is,
MICSLOG and the SAS log are masked).