Granting and revoking instance-level authorities
Authorization is a security mechanism by which DB2 determines whether a user is allowed to perform a certain action or not. DB2 provides various authorities for the administration of databases and their environment. We can grant these authorities to different users to perform a certain set of operations. These operations could be installation, migration, backups, maintenance activities, data loads, so on and so forth. The authorities comprise certain privileges that are necessary to perform a certain task. DB2 provides two levels of authorities:
- Instance-level authorities
- Database-level authorities
Instance-level authorities allow the user to perform the instance-level activities, such as upgrading ...
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