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Standard Profile Object

The Profile object provides a proxy set of mainframe credentials that is shared by all LDAP users in a particular Role.

All LDAP users logging into Web Viewer must have a Profile assigned to their Role, which determines their access to CA View or CA Bundl repositories. These credentials can be either mainframe security credentials or internal security credentials for the various CA View or CA Bundl repositories.

Note: We recommend that all profiles use mainframe security credentials. Otherwise, you will need to be certain that the Profile’s credentials are valid for each CA View and CA Bundl system that is to be accessed by this Profile.

Profile Access

• A Role’s access is limited to material its Profile’s credential have access to on the CA View and CA Bundl systems.
• A Role’s users can have their access and permissions further limited by controls set within CA Output Management Web Viewer, such as Role settings or Repositories settings.
• Users cannot be granted access to data their Role’s Profile credentials would not normally have access to on the CA View or CA Bundl repositories.
• The Profile uses a single set of mainframe credentials, so that all users using this Profile would have certain limits on their actions, no matter which Role is using the Profile.

Note: Administrators must be aware that the credentials supplied by a Profile can expire in a mainframe security package. Someone from a Role that is the same as yours, or the System Administrator will have to update the credentials if they expire.

When assigning a Subscription to a Role which uses a Profile, take care that the Reports in the Subscription are accessible by the Profile and Role. It may be confusing to assign Subscriptions of reports from various Repositories when some of the Repositories cannot be accessed by the Profile.

For more information, see Assigning Subscriptions to Roles.