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Plan authorization

Plan the users who will have administrative authority and plan how to authorize users of applications to appropriately use IBM MQ objects, including those connecting from an IBM MQ MQI client.

Individuals or applications must be granted access in order to use IBM MQ. What access they require depend on the roles they undertake and the tasks which they need to perform. Authorization in IBM MQ can be subdivided into two main categories:

  • Authorization to perform administrative operations
  • Authorization for applications to use IBM MQ

Both classes of operation are controlled by the same component and an individual can be granted authority to perform both categories of operation.

The following topics give further information about specific areas of authorization that we must consider:

Parent topic: Plan for the security requirements

Last updated: 2020-10-04