The DataStage production security issue

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:50 pm

It really depends on what you want to accomplish.

Some security is, of course, implemented at database level, so that the user ids and passwords contained in the stages that access those databases provide one level of security.

DataStage security itself is based on operating system group membership. In the Administrator you designate which UNIX (or WinNT) groups can run DataStage jobs, and which groups can develop them, and (perhaps) which have no DataStage rights at all.

You may have to re-think your UNIX security model to use group-based security rather than user-based security, so that you can use multiple user ids in Director. This has implications, too, for the crontab file(s) that will be used for jobs scheduled from Director.

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