User group profiles

This topic describes the new user group profiles feature of the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface (WUI).

This new feature enables administrators to create profiles for groups of WUI users. What individual users see and do when they log on to the WUI can be controlled by the user group profile to which they belong enabling the WUI to be tailored to the needs of various groups of users. You can, for example, use the view editor to create a new WUI menu containing only operations views and make this the default menu for a group of users. This would provide a simplified operational WUI for users who only need to carry out this kind of task.

A user group profile can contain the following information: If a profile does not have some of these values specified; for example, if the default menu value is blank, the corresponding WUI parameter value specified in the JCL is used. This is also the case for any invalid values set in the profile, for example if the specified default menu does not exist.

User group profiles are created and managed using a new editing facility, the user editor, which can be accessed by administrators with the necessary authority from the WUI main menu. See Creating and managing user group profiles for more information.

To facilitate this a new type of object called a user group has been introduced. User group objects, like view and menu objects, can be imported and exported using the COVC transaction.

User group profiles can be used only if security is active in the WUI. A user group object relates to a user group name in the external security manager (ESM). When a user signs on to the WUI the signon procedure gets the accessor environment element (ACEE) from the ESM for the user. The ACEE is used to retrieve the user's default group. The default group name is then used to obtain a corresponding group object in the WUI. If there is no corresponding group object found in the WUI cache when the user signs on, the default values specified in the WUI parameters in the JCL are used for that user.
Note: In the ESM user groups can contain only the following characters:
  • A through Z (you can enter lowercase characters but they are folded to uppercase)
  • 0 through 9
  • # (X'23'), $ (X'24') and @ (X'40')

In order to manage user group profiles an administrator needs update access to a new ESM facility profile named EYUWUI.wui_server_applid.USER where wui_server_applid is the application ID of the WUI server to which this profile relates.

Setting up a new user group involves the following steps:
  1. Creating a new user group profile in the WUI using the user editor (see Creating and managing user group profiles for guidance.
  2. Creating a user group with the same name in the ESM.
  3. Setting the user group as one or more users' default user group in the ESM.