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Pattern Matching in Authorizations

Use a trailing asterisk to indicate all words that start with the specified characters. Use this capability with great care because you can inadvertently grant powerful authorizations to many user IDs.

Example:

The following record gives ULIST authorization over the user IDs that user ID DATAMGR manages to all user IDs that start with the character string DEV:

GRANT ULIST OVER *DIRUSRS OF DATAMGR TO DEV*