Understanding the authorization specification tables

The authorization specification tables starting in topic Table 8 define precisely how the authorizations work and the restrictions that apply. The tables apply to these situations:

• Applications that issue MQI calls

• Administration programs that issue MQSC commands as escape PCFs

• Administration programs that issue PCF commands

In this section the information is presented as a set of tables that specify the following:

Action to be performed

MQI option, MQSC command, or PCF command.

Access control object

Queue, process definition, queue manager, namelist, channel, client connection channel, listener, service, or authentication information object.

Authorization required

Expressed as an MQZAO_ constant.

In the tables, the constants prefixed by MQZAO_ correspond to the keywords in the authorization list for the GRTMQMAUT and RVKMQMAUT commands for the particular entity. For example, MQZAO_BROWSE corresponds to the keyword

*BROWSE; similarly, the keyword MQZAO_SET_ALL_CONTEXT corresponds to the keyword *SETALL and so on. These constants are defined in the header file cmqzc.h, which is supplied with the product.