Ted Johnson wrote:

> ...
> The programmers do not want to be at the mercy of the systems
> group for such things as moving programs into production and upgrading our
> software.  None of the programmers have SM capabilities in our user setups (we
> do have AM) but we do have a program we can run that will give us SM
> capabilities after we log on.
> ...

Do you own VESOFT's MPEX?  If so, you can probably solve the problem using
the "WITHCAPS" facility.

The problem with GRANT (and GOD, and other such programs) is that they simply
give you a particular capability.  What you want is to allow the user to be
able to perform a specific set of commands (whatever is needed to move
programs into production), perhaps only on a specific set of files.  That's
what the "WITHCAPS" facility is for.

An alternative is to create (or purchase) something that will collect all of
the accounts/groups/users on each system, compare the results, and
synchronize them (if necessary).  You could run it at whatever regular
interval you deem necessary (weekly, daily, hourly, etc.).  A crude first
attempt might be to run BULDACCT on the first system, copy the job to the
second system, stream it, run BULDACCT on the second system, copy the job
back to the first system, and stream it.  NEW accounts/groups/users will
propagate nicely, but changes made to the second system will be overridden by
the first system.

Have fun, and good luck!

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