Allowing a user to copy or create a duplicate object

An iSeries user asks expert Carol Woodbury if there is a way to allow a user to copy or create a duplicate object without giving them update rights to that object in V5R3.

Carol Woodbury, SkyView Partners

Published: 14 Aug 2007

Is there a way to allow a user to copy or create a duplicate object without giving them update rights to that object? V5R3.

According to the iSeries Security Reference manual, Appendix D, you need *OBJMGT and *USE to the old object to run CRTDUPOBJ and to run CPYF you need *OBJOPR and *READ. In other words, you don't need update rights to run either of these commands.

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Allowing a user to copy or create a duplicate object

An iSeries user asks expert Carol Woodbury if there is a way to allow a user to copy or create a duplicate object without giving them update rights to that object in V5R3.

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