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RealityV15.1Online Documentation (MoTW) Revision 7

SYSMAN Account (m605003_sysman.htm)

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SYSMAN Account

SYSMAN is an account provided specifically for the database administrator. It has unique facilities not available to any other account. These include:

Setting up and maintenance of user-ids and security profiles, via the SSM command;
Deletion of accounts, via the DELETE-ACCOUNT command;
Setting up and modification of passwords for other users, and for accounts, via the PASSWORD command.

Access to SYSMAN should be restricted.

The SYSMAN Master Dictionary (MD) contains a full set of command definition items. System files in SYSMAN and their purpose are listed below:

SYSPL Contains system Proc items.

SYSBP Contains system DataBasic program object items.

SYSBP.MSGS Contains message items for system DataBasic programs.

NETWORK Contains security data for a particular location, identified by a PLId (or partial PLId) item-id. This information is maintained using the SSM command, NETWORK File Maintenance screen.

REALITY-LICENCE
A Licence view special file that contains details of the available user and despooler licences and their current usage. In particular, it includes details of the following:

The number of days until your user, temporary and despooler licences expire.

The number of licences that you have reserved for special purposes, such as SQL, remote subroutine calls and RealWeb.

SECURITY Contains security profiles: this information is maintained using the SSM command, SECURITY File Maintenance screen. Each item has a profile-id as the item-id. Profile-ids are associated with user-ids via the SSM command, USERS File Maintenance screen.

USERS Contains security information for particular user-ids on the database. Each item-id is a user-id. This information is maintained using the SSM command, USERS File Maintenance screen.