An object in the Optim™ Directory, such as an Archive Request, is secured by associating it with an Access Control List (ACL), which provides access permissions for the object. If Object Security is enabled by your Security Administrator, secured objects are protected by settings in the ACL.
The status bar in an object editor and the Secured column in the Open dialog display the following icons to indicate whether an object is secured by an ACL:


When you print a secured object, the secured object icon is also displayed in the report.
You can modify the ACL for an object by using the following commands available from the Tools menu in the object editor or the shortcut menu in the Open dialog:
The size of the fully qualified name for a Primary Key and a Relationship is restricted when Object Security is enabled.
Other object names (such as the names for Access Definitions, Table Maps, and Column Maps) are not affected by this restriction because their names do not exceed the character limit.
You must have read access to export a secured object. When you import automatically secured objects, the new ACLs are modeled after the Optim Object Template ACL. If the Optim Object Template ACL is not defined, you must define an ACL for each object that requires an ACL.