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[bubble]

Hello everyone,

Does the useralias feature exist on VMS?

Any specificities?

[men]

Hello Bubble,

the useralias feature exists indeed on VMS.

It allows to associate OS users to Dollar Universe Users. Mandatory on Windows, it is optional on Unix.

On VMS, the feature is also available, but works with restrictions:

- It will not work for interactive users as there is a hard-coded check of the existence of the user in the user table.

- But the feature will work for the command mode and especially for the uxordre. This will allow not having to define all users triggering uxordre commands in Dollar Universe tables and having to maintain them. You will need to define them in the useralias file which can be easily updated through a text editor and copied to another server.

To activate the "useralias" feature on VMS :

1- Create a Logical Name in the System table called UNIVERSE_USERALIAS_Company (replace Company by the name of your Company) with the value S_'S_SOCIETE'_UXMGR:USERALIAS.TXT.
This Logical Name should be added in the UXSTARTUP.COM.

2- Create the USERALIAS.TXT file specifying first the OS user, then one or several spaces, then the $U user defined as its equivalent (both should be in uppercase). Wildcards are not allowed, so you have to create as many lines as you have "final" users

ex:
LVA SUP500D
MEN SUP500A
TAR SUP500E
FGA SUP500E
EMR SUP500D


3- For the "final" users who need to trigger a job with the uxordre/uxord command

3a- Define the Global symbol S_SOCIETE with the proper value

3b- Define the Global symbol U_LOG_FILE with the proper value (generally S_'S_SOCIETE'_LOGMX:UNIVERSE.LOG)

3c- @S_'S_SOCIETE'_UXEXE:CRE_ALIAS.COM

Run the uxordre command to trigger the requested TSKs and check the result in $U.

Hope this helps

Michel

[bubble]

Thanks for that Michel!