Product Notes
Current User
Powertech Authority Broker uses IBM i facilities to change the current job's authority by changing the IBM i "Current User". This change allows the active job to run under the IBM i authority of another user, other than the user who originally signed on to the job.
While the Operating system recognizes and honors this change without fail, some older business applications may incorrectly look only at the "Signed On User" when they check for internal application security. These older applications do not correctly check for "Current User" and therefore may miss the changed authority.
In such cases, you may have to ask your business application supplier to update their software to recognize the most current method of checking user authority.
The change required is easy, and low risk. In a CL program the following statement:
RTVJOBA USER(&USER)
Would be changed to read:
RTVJOBA CURUSER(&USER)
Please Contact Powertech technical support if you require further assistance.
Object Verification
Authority Broker does not check if an object actually exists when entering names for User Profiles, Libraries, or Objects. Instead, Authority Broker verifies the entry to ensure the name entered conforms to IBM's naming conventions for libraries, or user profiles, etc.