Advanced settings in Central Settings

Advanced settings are a part of the Central Settings in Application Administration and can only be administered from an administration system.

The advanced settings provide the administrator with the ability to control settings more complex than the simple access settings (such as allow or deny access). An administrator can use the advanced settings to define a set of environments and system connections that automatically download to an iSeries™ Access for Windows^® client.

These environments and system connections are mandated by the administrator in the advanced settings and cannot be modified by the client. In addition, advanced settings can be used to mandate or suggest that the iSeries Access for Windows client use specific settings for the passwords, connection, service, and language attributes, and to determine automatically if new plug-ins are available for installation.

Notes:

Central Settings are not available on operating systems earlier than OS/400^® V5R2. iSeries Access for Windows clients earlier than V5R2 cannot use Central Settings.
You must have security administrator (*SECADM) and all object (*ALLOBJ) system privileges to work with advanced settings on an administration system. This differs from other settings in Application Administration, which only require security administrator (*SECADM) system privilege to make changes.

How advanced settings are obtained for a user
Application Administration uses the client's current administration system and user to determine the system and user that will be used as the source of the client's Central Settings, including the advanced settings.
Mandated and suggested values
In Application Administration, a padlock icon next to an advanced setting represents a mandated or suggested state.

Parent topic:

Application Administration concepts