Re: EDTOBJAUT from a CL program

Thanks, Paul. I think overall this is a good plan that you have laid out.



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From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: BBaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 08/14/2011 08:16 PM
Subject: Re: EDTOBJAUT from a CL program
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Coming late to the party...

But if you haven't fixed the authority yet, consider creating an
authorization list and shifting authority from the object to the
authority list (and my spelling of the keywords may be off!):

RVKOBJAUT for users who are listed

GRTOBJAUT AUTL(*authorization list name)

CHGOBJAUT USRPRF(*PUBLIC) AUTHORITY(*AUTL)

Then edit the authorization list and add in the authority you used to
list for every object in the library.

Advantages-- you can change authority for all objects secured by the
list at once.

Disadvantages-- any profile that still need special authority still
has to be granted authority for each individual object. But this
should be a small subset of the full list!

And also while you're at it-- create 2 authorization lists: One for
program-type objects (programs, display and print files, modules,
service programs, etc.), and a second list for data-containing
objects (files, tables, data areas, data queues, etc.) This give you
more control over different types of objects. For example, you may
want *PUBLIC to have *USE rights to programs, but not to files.

--Paul E Musselman
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