Re: Need help understanding Mapics security

"LeLeux, James" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.systems.as400.mapics
Message-ID <03B42F10470C7A47B3571990353A253B09019B62B0@JKVMAILBOX1.spsfastener.com>
Rich,

Greg nailed it for you.  This is exactly how we extract the authorities for SOX purposes.

We also have personal menus & group jobs, but those are disappearing as more users migrate to Browser.

I highly recommend using a test USER account to make sure that security works as you think it does.
Not having objects locked down or having personal menus can cause unexpected results - especially since MAPICS security is kludgy.

You can also use query to export the data to a file that you can push or pull to another system, so perhaps that can help you achieve your goal?
You can also put it in the AS400 scheduler to fully automate or run via remote execution.


Regards...james


James LeLeux
IT Director: Cherry, Shur-Lok, & SPS Santa Ana
1224 East Warner Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Cell:  714-929-8063
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-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] [mailto:mapics-l-bounces-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Wenzloff
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 5:02 AM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Need help understanding Mapics security

Rich,

We create a file as part of our SOX audit.
Try this ... see if it gives you something useful:

create a query
file 1 - MZBRRES2	
file 2 - TSKDEFL0
2=Matched records from primary file
BRSKXX EQ TASKTS
BRBTXX EQ SUBTTS

choose fields - we use
                                                    
 Seq   Field             Text                       
   10  T01.BRBUCD        Userid                     
   20  T02.APLATS        Application abbreviation   
   30  T02.TSTYTS        Task type                  
   40  T01.BRSKXX        Task ID                    
   50  T01.BRBTXX        Sub task ID                
   60  T02.TSDSTS        Task description           

Sort results - we use

                                                             
 Sort                                                        
 Prty A/D  Field           Text                              
   10  A   T01.BRBUCD      Userid                            
   20  A   T02.APLATS      Application abbreviation          
   30  A   T01.BRBTXX      Sub task ID                       
   40  A   T01.BRSKXX      Task ID                           

Break on userid

                                                              
 Break    Sort                                                
 Level    Prty  Field           Text                          
   1        10  T01.BRBUCD      Userid                        

Good luck,
Greg 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Reeve [mailto:richreeve-/[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 3:45 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Need help understanding Mapics security

Greg,

     Please forgive my ineptness where Mapics is concerned.  What I'm task at doing is producing a file that contains a specific users authorized menus and all authorized options on that menu(s).  Are you telling me that Cross Apps/Maintenance-Change/Security Maintenance/Generate Reports capable of doing this (producing a file rather than a report)?  If not, can you give me a little guidance as to which files I should be looking at?

    Thanks.

 
Warmest Regards, 

Richard Reeve




________________________________
From: Greg Wenzloff <[email protected]>
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion <mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 7:43:47 AM
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Need help understanding Mapics security

Why not use Cross Apps/Maintenance-Change/Security Maintenance/Generate Reports Available in XAR4  --- should be in later versions too.

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Reeve [mailto:richreeve-/[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 7:16 AM
To: mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
Subject: [MAPICS-L] Need help understanding Mapics security

All,


     I have been tasked with writing a connector to list the menus/options that each user within Mapics is authorized to.  Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as which files to use to retrieve this information?

Thanks so much.


Warmest Regards, 

Richard Reeve


      
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