Performing User Maintenance › Add or Modify a User

Add or Modify a User

To define a new user ID or modify an existing user's characteristics

1. From the Administration Menu, select option 1, User/Group Maintenance.

   The TPX User/Group Administration Menu is displayed.

2. Select option 3, User Maintenance.

   The TPX User Maintenance panel is displayed.

3. Type the user ID you want to add or modify in the space to the right of the prompt, as shown in the following panel, and press Enter.

   Note: When specifying a new user ID, do not use the hyphen character (-) within the user ID. It is not a valid character.

   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.  If you do not know the user ID, you can type an asterisk (*) and press Enter. A list of the user IDs that you can administer is displayed.  You can select a user ID from the list by typing an S to the left of it.

   In the following panel, the administrator is requesting a list of the user IDs he can administer that begin with USR..

                         TPX User Maintenance 
                                                          Panelid - TEN0196 
    Command ===>                                          Userid  - TPXADMIN
                                                          Termid  - DXAP59B 
                                                          Date    - 03/14/03
                                                          Time    - 07:35:49
      Enter Userid to administer or '*' for list ===> USR*	
      Record Count Limit ===>
   

   The options menu for user maintenance is displayed, as follows. From this menu you can select which options you want to modify for the user ID you have selected.

   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. Use a mask and/or set the Record Count Limit to avoid this problem.

To copy all user settings from another userid

After selecting the userid that you want to modify.

1. To copy all user values from another userid (including user options, session options, list of profiles, administrator and VIEW capabilities) type COPY userid on the command line. Then press Enter. You will see message: MENA8017 userid copied. The copied values may now be modified.

                         TPX User Maintenance 
                                                        Panelid    TEN0118 
    Select Option ===>                                  Copy Userid   - TPXADMIN
                                                        Terminal - D08L074 
        Userid: USR1                                    Date     - 11/07/03
                                                        Time     - 15:02:08
       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