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Globally Administrative Profiles

A conventional departmental profile can only be attached to users if both the user and the profile fall within the administrator’s scope. In some cases, however, it is desirable to create a profile that might be available to all administrators. Globally Administrative Profiles, or GAPs, provide this capability. Giving the GAP attribute to a profile allows any security administrator to attach the profile to any user within his administrative scope.

For example, if the DCA DPT1ADM creates the profile PROF01, then he can permit global administration by entering:

TSS ADD(PROF01) GAP

Now any administrator can attach PROF01 to any user within his scope.

To remove the GAP attribute from a profile, the REMOVE command function can be used. For example:

TSS REM(PROF01) GAP