RE: RE: Special authority use ... Auditing

Tom,

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At 3/24/06 07:35 PM, you wrote:

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. RE: Special authority use ... Auditing (Graap, Ken)
>
>The question I'm trying to answer now is "Why do regular application
>uses require *SAVSYS authority?" None of the developers in my shop can
>answer that question. I need to understand that before I remove this
>special authority from the application's group profile. I was hoping
>that I could get information from the audit journal regarding this. It
>looks like it isn't going to be that easy. I'll probably end up
>recommending that we make the change, see what "breaks" and then address
>each situation as it comes up.

I'd expect that to be the best course to take. I'm having a very hard time grasping why any application users would ever need *SAVSYS. If something breaks, then that something needs to be fixed -- and _not_ by granting *SAVSYS.

Tom Liotta

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