User Guide

SAP AG November 2002

• This DBM operator is then responsible for managing and monitoring the database system

and for running backups. The DBM operator is also authorized to perform all Database

Manager functions, regardless of what operating mode the database instance is in.

• The DBM operator is also authorized to create additional DBM operators, and assign

these all or some of their authorizations.

• The DBM operator can log on to the Database Manager more than once, which means

the DBM operator can, for example, query operating parameters while functions that take

a long time are still running.

DBM operators are not database users [Page

136]. You need to create database

users in order to work on a database instance.

Authorizations

The database system SAP DB makes a distinction between two types of authorizations for

the Database Manager operator [Page

134] (DBM operator):

• User authorizations [Page

27]

Authorizations of the DBM operator for executing the functions of the Database Manager

[Page 133]

• Operating system user authorizations [Page

28]

Authorizations of the DBM operator for accessing remote servers via the Database

Manager

User Authorizations

User authorizations are the authorizations [Page 27] of the Database Manager operator [Page

134] (DBM operator) that he/she needs to use the required functionality of the Database

Manager [Page 133].

An authorization may cover more than one command and one command may have more than

one authorization assigned to it.

Use the Database Manager to assign the relevant user authorizations to a DBM operator.