Insight Publisher – Authorization Guide

September 3, 2025

Table of Contents

Overview

The SAP authorization concept protects transactions, programs, and services in SAP systems from unauthorized access. To access business objects or execute SAP transactions, a user requires corresponding authorizations, as business objects or transactions are protected by authorization objects.

Insight Zap Products adhere to SAP authorization with no exception!

Insight Zap was designed to enable on-Production working thus, it was designed – bottom-up – with Authorization in mind. Note, that Insight Zap fully adheres to the SAP authorization concept and uses it as its corner-stone. In no case, Insight Zap will allow, authorization-wise, things that SAP standard does not.

Insight Zap suite (Insight Creator and the additional modules IDoc Monitor+, and Changer, Insight Publisher and the additional module Excel-In) authorization was built on-top (and using) SAP authorization concept. Thus, whoever invokes a transaction using one of the suite’s products, must first have the Authorization needed to invoke that transaction.

Actually, using Insight Zap tools, one may enforce additional authorization checks per object (report/query/DB table). The checks could be done either at a Record level (just like it’s done by standard SAP code) and at a Column level.

Authorization Roles

The following SAP Authorization Roles are available:

  • /DCM/PUBLISHER_ADMIN – For Insight Publisher Administrator.
  • /DCM/PUBLISHER_GROUP_ADMIN – For Insight Publisher Group Administrator
  • /DCM/PUBLISHER_USER – For Publisher User. This is the only reference role. Please fill in the relevant transaction code

The following SAP Authorization Objects are available:

  • Transaction: /DCM/Publisher_adm
    • Create the relevant Jobs groups in transaction /DCM/JOBGRP
    • Maintain authorization object “/DCM/PBADM ” & “/DCM/PBDST” & ” /DCM/PBSNP”  with relevant value. For Publisher manager maintain activity “*” for all/relevant jobs groups.

Authorization Object /DCM/PBADM now includes new capabilities as detailed below:

Sub Object – /DCM/JOB Activity
Job Group 01 Create

02 Change

03 Display

06 Delete

16 Execute

43 Release

60 Import

61 Export

70 Administer

81 Schedule

90 Copy

PU Publish

 

  • Authorization Object /DCM/PBDST:
Sub Object – /DCM/DEST Sub Object – /DCM/DISTM Activity
Domain Destination D File Directory

F FTP

M Email

P SMS

S Snapshot

10 Post

 

  • Authorization Object /DCM/PBSNP:
Sub Object – /DCM/SNGRP Sub Object – /DCM/SNKEY Activity
Snapshot Group Snapshot Key 01 Create

02 Change

03 Display

06 Delete

16 Execute

70 Administer

 

  • Authorization Object /DCM/TFILE :
Object – /DCM
Dpro Auth. Objects Tabular File 16 (Execute) – Execution of file (Display file contents/ALV in /DCM/FILE_VIEW).

23 (Maintain) – Maintain Columns of file (when file is displayed in /DCM/FILE_VIEW).

70 (Administrator) – Assignment/maintenance of files in transaction /DCM/TFILE.

 

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