How authorizations work
The authorization specification tables in the topics in this section define precisely how the authorizations work and the restrictions that apply.
The tables apply to these situations:
- Applications that issue MQI calls
- Administration programs that issue MQSC commands as escape PCFs
- Administration programs that issue PCF commands
In this section, the information is presented as a set of tables that specify the following:
- Action to be performed
- MQI option, MQSC command, or PCF command.
- Access control object
- Queue, process, queue manager, namelist, authentication information, channel, client connection channel, listener, or service.
- Authorization required
- Expressed as an MQZAO_ constant.
In the tables, the constants prefixed by MQZAO_ correspond to the keywords in the authorization list for the setmqaut command for the particular entity. For example, MQZAO_BROWSE corresponds to the keyword +browse, MQZAO_SET_ALL_CONTEXT corresponds to the keyword +setall, and so on. These constants are defined in the header file cmqzc.h, supplied with the product.