This document covers the following topics:

• Owner Maintenance

• Owner Retrieval

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Owner Maintenance

These functions are called from the User Maintenance Menu. This menu is called with the command MAINTAIN USER.

Overview of Functions and Commands

Function	Code	Command
Rename/Merge owner	R	RENAME OWNER
Purge owner	E	PURGE OWNER

Parameters

Keyword	Field	Position
OWNER	Owner	1

Owner-Specific Maintenance Command

Command	Description
RENAME OWNER	Renames an owner, or - if the new owner name already exists - assigns the objects of the old owner to the new owner ID. In both cases the old owner no longer exists after this function has been executed.
PURGE OWNER	The owner will be deleted from the owner list of all objects. Note An owner entry will not be deleted, if this would result in the last owner being deleted from an object which has the option OWNER=Force included in its object type definition.

Owner Retrieval

The Owner Retrieval Menu is called with the command RETRIEVE OWNER.

Overview of Functions and Commands

Retrieval Type	Code	Default Output Mode	Command
Owners	D	D	DISPLAY OWNER
		L	LIST OWNER
		S	SELECT OWNER
		D	SHOW OWNER
Owner with no user	O	L	FREE OWNER
Objects with no owners	U	L	EMPTY OWNER ALL | <object-type>
Cross reference owners	X	X	XREF OWNER

Parameters

Keyword	Field	Position
ID	Owner ID	1
OUT	Output options	2
MODE	Output mode	3

Owner-Specific Retrieval Commands

Owner objects are processed with Standard Retrieval Commands.