Grant authority to access reports and components in Analyser

The following describes how to grant authority to the individuals that you want to be able to either:

Print your Report
Connect your version to a report
Print your Report group

Note: You grant authority to all three via the same menu item on the iSeries, but you can only choose one at a time.

Select the Work with report writer security menu item on the iSeries.
You access Report writer security maintenance. Complete the following relevant fields:

Note: Although authority can be granted to all three (Report, Version and Report group) from the same panel, you can only choose to grant authority to one at a time.

Report: Set this field to YES to define that it is a report to which you want to grant authority.
Version: Set this field to YES to define that it is a Version to which you want to grant authority.
Report group: Set this field to YES to define that it is a Report group to which you want to grant authority.
Identity: Enter the name of the Report or Version or Report group to which you want to grant authority.
User profile: Instead of entering a Report name or Version name or Report group name in the Identity field, you can enter a user profile name from Work with system user profiles. The next panel accessed will then display all Reports or Versions or Report groups that are secured and you can define to which this user should have access.; For this example leave the field blank.

Click OK.

You access Report writer security maintenance. Define the YES setting next to the persons who should be allowed to either:

Print this report
Use this version for a report
Print this report group.

Note: The default value for the user that created the Report / Version / Report group is a YES setting.

Click OK. Exit the routine.

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