Central Settings

Advanced settings are a part of the Central Settings in Application Administration and can only be administered from an administration system.

Central Settings are available on iSeries systems running i5/OS™ V5R2 or later releases and are used only by iSeries™ Access for Windows^® clients using V5R2 or later versions. The advanced settings provide the administrator with the ability to control settings more complex than the simple access settings that are also supported in Application Administration (such as allow or deny access). An administrator can use the advanced settings to define a set of environments and server connections that will automatically download to an iSeries Access for Windows client.

Start of change These environments and server connections are mandated by the administrator in the advanced settings and cannot be modified by the client. In addition, advanced settings can be used to mandate or suggest the iSeries Access for Windows client use specific settings for the passwords, connection, service, language attributes, and determine automatically if new plug-ins are available for installation. End of change

Note: You must have security administrator (*SECADM) and all object (*ALLOBJ) system privileges to work with advanced settings on an administration system. This differs from other settings in Application Administration, which only require security administrator (*SECADM) system privilege to make changes.

How advanced settings are obtained for a user
Application Administration uses the client's current administration system and user to determine the system and user that will be used as the source of the client's Central Settings, including the advanced settings.
Mandate and suggest values
In Application Administration, a padlock icon next to an advanced setting represents a mandated or suggested state.

Parent topic: Application Administration concepts