IBM System i (AS/400) Objects
Q. What are AS/400 Objects?
A.
The AS/400 is sometimes described as an object based system because objects are a fundamental part of the design of the system. Almost everything in the AS/400 is an object.
These include data files, user profiles, job queues, message queues, print queues, compiled programs, word processing documents, menus, etc.
On the AS/400 objects are categorized by type, which allow the user to specify what type of objects are required for a given task. There are OS/400 objects and MI system objects.
Some OS/400 objects map one to one with MI system objects, but other have a one to many mapping. This is because some OS/400 objects need to map to multiple MI system objects. All OS/400 objects map to at least one MI system object.
The object is assigned an owner when it is created. The owner is either the user or the group profile that created the object. When the object is created, the owner is given all the object and data authorities to that object.