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are fixed and cannot be customized.The user roles and their capabilities are shown in the following
table.
Table 3 User roles
Description
User Role
Responsible for all replication tasks, including resource allocation
(S-VOLs).
Storage administrator
Responsible for all replication tasks, except resource allocation.
Copy pair administrator
Responsible for data protection of applications, but cannot change
pair configurations.
Application administrator
Responsible for application maintenance. Allowed to create replicas,
but not to perform restores.
Application operator
Operations permitted for each role are marked with an X the following tables.
TIP:
By default, Storage Administrator is assigned to users with Modify permission. However, if you change
such a user to have Admin or View permission and later restore the Modify permission, the previous
user role is retained.
Table 4 Pair definition and replica operations
Replica creation/restore
Pair definition
Role
Restore
Create
Define copy
groups
Allocate S-VOLs
X
X
X
X
Storage administrator
X
X
X
Copy pair administrator
X
X
Application administrator
X
Application operator
Table 5 Pair operations
Advanced
(open only)
Basic
(mainframe and open)
Role
Takeover-Re-
covery
Force-split
Swap
Takeover
Restore
Re-
sync/split
Delete
Create
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Storage adminis-
trator
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Copy pair admin-
istrator
X
X
Application ad-
ministrator
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