Define an Administrator ID

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Define an Administrator ID

To define an administrator ID for yourself or another user

Sign on to CA TPX with an ID that has master administrator authority (TPXADMIN or your own master administrator ID).
Select option 1, TPX User/Group Maintenance, from the TPX Administration Menu.
The TPX User/Group Administration Menu is displayed.
Select option 3, User Maintenance.
A panel, shown in step 4, is displayed that asks you to select the user ID that you want to administer.
Type the user ID you want to add or modify in the space to the right of the prompt and press Enter. If you do not know the user ID, type an asterisk (*) to the right of the prompt or specify a mask and press Enter.
Important! Issuing an asterisk (*) operand in the User Maintenance field to search all user records in the VSAM tables can cause system and storage related problems. This command causes CA TPX to search every record in the CA TPX database and can cause performance degradation on large complexes. If you know that a userid begins with the characters ‘USR’ then you can list all users that begin with USR by typing USR* and pressing Enter.

The options menu for user maintenance is displayed.

In this panel, the administrator is adding a user ID of MASTADM1.

Note: When specifying a new user ID, do not use the hyphen character (-) within the user ID. It is not a valid character.
```
                   TPX User Maintenance 
                                               Panelid - TEN0196 
 Command ===>                                  Userid  - MASTADM 
                                               Termid  - DXAP59B 
                                               Date    - 03/14/03
                                               Time    - 07:35:49
    Enter Userid to administer or '*' for list ===> MASTADM1
    Record Count Limit ===>
```

Select option 6, Maintain Administrator Capabilities, by typing 6 at the command prompt and pressing Enter.

The following TPX User Maintenance panel is displayed.

TPX User Maintenance Panelid - TEN0118 Select Option ===> Userid - USER01 Terminal - D90M32 Userid: MASTADM1 <New> Date - 01/11/03 Time - 12:03:34 1 TPX User Options 2 TPX Session Options 3 STX User Options 4 STX Session Options 5 Maintain List of Profiles 6 Maintain Administrator Capabilities 7 Maintain TPX View Capabilities

At this point, you can assign one or more of the various administrative duties to the user as described here:

Master Administrator: To define a master administrator, type a Y in the Master Administrator field for one or both components. Also, you must add groups to the administrator's list of groups (as described in Authorizing a User to Administrate a Group), since a master administrator must have authority to administer a group.
System Administrator: To define a system administrator, type a Y in the System Administrator field for one or both components.
Operator Administrator: To define an operator administrator, type a Y in the Operator Administrator field.
User Administrator: To define a user administrator, type a Y in the User Administrator field for one or both components. You must also add one or more groups to the administrator's list of groups as described in Authorizing a User to Administrate a Group in this chapter.

In the following panel, the administrator is giving user administrator authority to a user ID of USRADM1.

TPX User Maintenance Panelid - TEN0169 Command ===> Userid - USER01 Termid - D90M34 Userid: USRADM1 Date - 01/11/03 Time - 13:33:19 TPX User Administrator: STX User Administrator: TPX Master Administrator: STX Master Administrator: TPX System Administrator: STX System Administrator: TPX Operator Administrator: Groups this User Administrator can modify: ******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA ************************

Press PF3 three times when you have finished assigning administration authority to the user.