RE: Athuorization lists

["Fisher, Don" <dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll have to ask our administrator whether the weekly SAVSYS backup
increased.  I'd say probably not since we were actually using group profiles
before, except every user was assigned to the same group profile that owned
everything.  Talk about a disaster waiting to happen...

We haven't run into any object ownership problems, but we don't do much with
the IFS, either.

As an alternative workaround, I would suggest placing the group profiles on
the authorization lists, instead of the individual users.  That would still
eliminate the need to maintain the individual authorization lists except
when adding a new group.

There is the limitation that only 16 group profiles may be assigned to a
user profile, but that's not a problem for us. 

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Adding the appropriate group profile to the user sounds a lot like
supplemental groups.  We tried that.  That, alone and by itself, increased
the length of our SAVSYS from 4 minutes to 44 minutes.  Verified by a team
of IBMers dialed into our machine.  Then we also ran into the limitation
that 1 single user, or group profile, can only own so many objects.
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