RE: Job User Identity

Thank you Charles

The user couldn't figure out why his name was on the job, he didn't have any queries running. So if I understand correctly JSMITH had a QZDASOINIT job running, with him showing both current and job user, then JDOE made an ODBC connection and an API did a profile swap and changed the current user to JDOE? Sorry this is kind of confusing.

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 2:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Job User Identity

Authority comes from the CURRENT USER only.

Every job in the system starts under a user ID. When the job starts, the
job user and the current user are the same. In the case of pre-start jobs
like QZDASOINIT, the job user is a system profile, QUSER.

JOB USER never changes, CURRENT USER changes when the job uses API to swap to another profile.

For the QZDASOINIT jobs, the profile swap happen when someone connects to the system using ODBC/JDBC/OLEDB. The credentials they use to connect are used to swap CURRENT USER of the servicing QZDASOINIT job so that the connected user is working within his/her own authority.

Charles

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Boyle, Doreen <doreen.boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Can someone please explain Job User Identity to me, and exactly what
controls it.

I noticed a QZDASOINIT job with different names for current user and
Job User Identity. I googled and read some blurbs, but was getting a
little confused about threads, *SYSTEM and *DEFAULT values etc. Is it
that the current user JSMITH submitted a query job that runs a batch
job that has multi threads in it and needs to use the profile JDOE
listed as the Job User Identity to perform more functions???
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