Set up ownership and public authority

In this topic, you establish ownership and public authority for application libraries, group libraries, and personal libraries.

You should work through this process with one application, and then go back and repeat the steps for any additional applications. The sample displays show the Application Installation forms that Sharon Jones prepared for the Customer Orders application in "Planning your application installation."

Use the procedures in this topic whenever you install a new application on your system or when you set up security for an existing application. Use the Application Installation forms that you prepared in "Planning your application installation."

• Create an owner profile
  This topic outlines the process of creating an owner profile.
• Change library ownership
  This step changes the ownership of a library, not the objects in the library.
• Set up ownership of application objects
  Changing the ownership of application objects is a cumbersome task, because you must change each object individually. If possible, ask your programmer or application provider to establish ownership for you.
• Set up public access to a library
  After you set ownership of application objects, you can use the Edit Object Authority (EDTOBJAUT) command to change public authority to the library:
• Set up public authority for objects in a library
  Use the Grant Object Authority (GRTOBJAUT) command to set public authority for all the objects in a library.
• Set up public authority for new objects
  The library description has a parameter called create authority (CRTAUT), which determines the public authority for new objects that are created in the library. The commands that create objects use the CRTAUT authority of the object library as the default. You should make the CRTAUT for a library the same as the public authority for the majority of existing objects in the library.
• Work with group and personal libraries
  Your profile owns the group and personal libraries you created when you set up user groups and individual users.