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System Administration Responsibilities The system administrator's responsibilities come under the following headings: * System specifications. * System security. This manual doesn't describe the precise procedures for carrying out your tasks as system administrator. Since the requirements of different sites vary widely, this manual describes the facilities available in HP ALLBASE/4GL. You can assess the particular needs of your site, and use the facilities you need. System Specifications HP ALLBASE/4GL allows centralized definition of a number of system-wide items. Centralizing these definitions ensures consistency across all applications on the system. It also relieves application developers of the need for creating suitable local definitions. HP ALLBASE/4GL gives you facilities to define system-wide formats for dates and decimal numbers, the currency symbol, screen display enhancements, and some aspects of the MPE/iX operating environment. For most installations, establishing the system-wide definitions is the last part of the HP ALLBASE/4GL installation process. You will probably only need to set most of the system-wide parameters once. System Security The HP ALLBASE/4GL system administrator controls all aspects of system security. This includes: * Assigning names to developer users and end users. * Assigning user passwords. * Defining application and version names and passwords. * Defining development security codes. * Securing (limiting access to) items within application menus. * Assigning database access parameters. The HP ALLBASE/4GL system security facilities are additional to the security facilities that MPE/iX provides.