Automation of assignment of ESS & MSS roles

[Former Member]

We are implementing ESS and MSS as part of our global HR implementation. What i am thinking of is to look for methods to automate the assignment of ESS role once the HR master record is created for an employee and MSS role once the chief relationship is established for the corresponding org unit.

Does anyone out in the field had done anything similar? If so,could you please share your experiences/lessons learned etc??

Thanks

Sarada Ganti

[charmaine_greene]

You have not mentioned the method of role assignment, ie direct/indirect so I assume you are using both.

You can automate the role provisioning without any problems for ess roles directly assigned to the ess user in SU01 - this is because the steps involved are easier to script.

Problems arise when automating the role provisioning for mss users that are indirectly assigned to their mss role through the position. The steps for administering indirect role assignments are not so straight forward and involve the running of RHRPROFL0 which needs to be maintained with key parameters to link the mss role to the position that the new manager is assigned to.

In the end we decided not to use indirect assignments because of this reason. The various scenarios was too difficult to script for the provisioning tool Tivoli (ITIM)

Hope this helps.

Regards

Charmaine