Planning for Application Administration

These questions will help you plan which functions will be managed through Application Administration's Local Settings. In addition, you will determine what type of access users and groups will have to those functions.

The first step in the planning process is to plan for Application Administration's Local Settings. The following questions will help you gather the information you need to begin to administer the Local Settings through Application Administration:

1. Which applications do you want to manage with Application Administration?

   You can only use Application Administration to administer applications that define administrable functions. For example, iSeries™ Navigator includes Basic Operations and Configuration and Service as administrable functions.

2. What type of access do you want users to have to the administrable functions of those applications?
   1. If you want all users to be allowed access to the function, then use the Default Access setting for the function. Then, by default, all users will have access to the function.
   2. If you want all users with all object system privilege to have access to the function, use the All Object Access setting for that function.

      This value allows all users with all object system privilege to have access to this function even if they are explicitly denied access to the function by using the Customized Access setting.

   3. Identify groups that require an access setting that differs from the Default Access setting. You must specify a Customized Access setting for each of these groups.
   4. Identify users who require an access setting that differs from the default access or customized access for the groups to which they belong. Then, specify a Customized Access setting for each of these users.
   5. Identify users not in a group who require an access setting that differs from the Default Access setting. You must specify a Customized Access setting for each of these users.

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