Replication Agent users

Several user identifiers are required for working with Replication Agent. The following table describes each one and its requirements.

**Table 1-2: User IDs associated with Replication Agent**
User ID	Description	Restrictions
LTMADMIN user	Sybase recommends that you create the LTMADMIN user ID, a TSO user optionally named LTMADMIN, to perform the following tasks: Install, start, and stop Replication Agent Manage the Replication Agent system tables on DB2 Bind the log extract plan	This identifier can be a TSO user ID or a group identifier. MVS user ID restrictions apply to this identifier (eight characters maximum, all uppercase). This user ID should not be identical to the Replication Server maintenance user ID.
Replication Server maintenance user	The maintenance user is the Replication Server user in the create connection command used to create a connection from Replication Agent to Replication Server. Any updates applied to the primary database by the maintenance user are ignored for replication unless the value of the LTM_process_maint_uid_trans LTM for MVS configuration parameter has a value of Y. The Replication Server get maintenance user command returns the Replication Server maintenance user ID.	Any updates applied to the primary database by the maintenance user are ignored for replication unless the value of the LTM for MVS LTM_process_maint_uid_trans configuration parameter has a value of Y. Because this user ID is intended to compare against a user ID that can perform updates on DB2, it must conform to MVS user ID restrictions (eight characters maximum, all uppercase). To avoid cyclic replication, this user ID should not be identical to the value of the LTM for MVS RS_user configuration parameter (the RS user).
RS user	The RS user is the user ID specified in the value of the RS_user configuration parameter. This is the user ID that Replication Agent uses to connect to the primary Replication Server. See “Task 1a: Create the RS_user on Replication Server” for details.	This user ID can be a maximum of 30 characters. This user ID should not be identical to the Replication Server maintenance user ID.
RSSD user	The RSSD user is the user ID specified in the value of the RSSD_user configuration parameter. This is the user name for the Adaptive Server user who has permissions to perform selects against the primary Replication Server’s RSSD.	This user ID can be a maximum of 30 characters.