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User Identification Facility (UIF)

CA‑PanAPT also provides an independent logon facility, the User Identification Facility (UIF). The CA‑PanAPT UIF provides a centralized facility to define details about a working environment to CA‑PanAPT. For example, it includes which database to allocate and access, the authorized users and passwords for job submissions, the panel, message, skeleton and table libraries to allocate, as well as other entries. This is very useful for single development teams or groups within departments to have their own CA‑PanAPT databases. Many times a single group is working on several different projects or products, and by using this facility (with the appropriate CA‑PanAPT logon system ID), instructs CA‑PanAPT which environment to set up for a session.

The CA‑PanAPT UIF provides four major functions:

• Creating logon system IDs
• Changing logon system IDs
• Deactivating logon system IDs
• Enforcing the use of this facility by using external security (Unicenter for OS/390 Common Services CAISSF) and restricting specific logon system IDs.

See the "User Identification Facility (UIF)" chapter for detailed instructions on how to use these features. For instructions on how to set up external security, see the "Update Your Security System" step in the chapter "Installation and Customization Using SMP/E," in the CA‑PanAPT Getting Started Guide.