Granting authorities on a queue manager

To perform an operation on a queue manager, the user must have authority to perform that particular operation on the queue manager.

About this task

The user can have the authority to perform any operation on the queue manager or just to perform specific operations; for example, to connect to the queue manager, to delete the queue manager, or to display the queue manager's attributes.

To grant authorities to a group or user to perform operations on a queue manager, complete the following steps.

Procedure

1. In the Navigator view, right-click the queue manager, then click Object Authorities > Manage Queue Manager Authority Records... The Manage Authority Records dialog opens.
2. Windows queue managers only: if we are granting the authority to an individual user, click the Users tab.
3. Click New... The Add Authorities dialog opens.
4. Enter the name of the group or user, as appropriate.
5. Select the check boxes for the authorities that we want to grant, then click OK.

Results

An authority record for the group or user is added to the table and the authorities that you granted are shown.

If the user or group already has some authorities on the queue manager, select the existing authority record and edit it. If you add a new authority record for a user or group that already has an authority record on the object, we are prompted to confirm that we want to overwrite the existing authority record.

Parent topic: Manage object authorities with an authorization service

Related concepts

• Users and groups (entities) in the authorization service
• Authorities we can set on IBM MQ objects

Related tasks

• Granting authorities on a specific object
• Granting authorities on multiple objects
• Granting the Create authority