TRANSFER Reference Manual

ADD-GROUP-MEMBER
TISERV UOW Descriptions
2–30 069139, Update 1 to 40969 Tandem Computers Incorporated
ADD-GROUP-MEMBER Operation
ADD-GROUP-MEMBER adds new members to a local interest group. A group
member must be a correspondent or interest group.
If the new member is a correspondent, the new member can optionally be granted
group administrative privileges. If the group profile voluntary sign-up flag is set to C,
local correspondents can add themselves as nonadministrative group members.
Otherwise, the current correspondent must be one of the following:
A system administrator with write privileges
A group administrator
The correspondent that created the group
When a correspondent is added as a group member, that correspondent is referred to
as a direct group member. When an existing local interest group is added as a group
member, the correspondents that are members of the nested or subordinate group are
known as indirect members of the primary group.
The TRANSFER delivery system automatically updates the membership of the group's
MEMBERS distribution list to reflect the new group membership addition.
Furthermore, the group's ADMIN distribution list is updated with the names of any
new members who have group administrator privileges.
If the depot storage statistics facility is active, the distribution list storage statistic for
the group is increased in the DEPSTAT file.
If GROUP-NAME specifies the PUBLIC group, an additional search list is appended to
the end of the depot search list of the new group member, so that partial names
entered by the group member are resolved using the local PUBLIC depot, after current
search alternatives. This search list update applies to all correspondent depots that are
direct or indirect members of the PUBLIC group. The addition of the PUBLIC search
list record to a correspondent's depot does not affect any sessions in progress for the
correspondent. All new sessions use the updated search list.
If a member name specified is a group and not a correspondent, but GROUP-ADMIN-
PRIV is specified, error 4258, E-MBR-NOT-CORR, is returned. If the member name
specified is a remote correspondent or group name, error E-MBR-NOT-SAME-NODE
is returned.
If the current session is adding its own correspondent name to a voluntary sign-up
group, and MEMBER-IS-ADMIN is positive, then error 4093, E-SECURITY-
VIOLATION is returned.
If MEMBER-NAME contains a group name, and GROUP-NAME refers to a group that
is currently a member of the MEMBER-NAME group, then error 4250, E-GROUP-
MBR-CIRCULAR, is returned. (That is, two groups cannot be members of each other.)