Resources and privileges are normally managed in BS2000 by the user ID TSOS. SRPM permits these tasks to be carried out, in addition, by other user IDs, i.e. to decentralize the tasks. The privileges for managing resources are called “global privileges” in the rest of this manual. The distribution of the global privileges means that a certain set of system administration tasks can be executed with the necessary system functions under the user ID which has the related global privilege. The full scope of privileges is thus no longer available to only one user ID.
Not only does this measure reduce the system administration workload, but the distribution of its privileges also leads to enhanced security for system administration, e.g. by reducing the number of persons who need to know the TSOS password in order to perform their dayto-day work. The tasks to be performed can thus be distributed and separated as required by the computer center involved by granting specific user IDs global privileges and withdrawing them as appropriate.