IBM PureData System for Analytics, Version 7.1

CREATE CATEGORY

Use the CREATE CATEGORY command to create a security category.

Synopsis

Syntax for creating a category:

CREATE CATEGORY <category-name>

The CREATE CATEGORY command has the following input:

Table 1. CREATE CATEGORY input
Input	Description
<category-name>	An identifier for a category. The name must be unique among security category names. Due to the total size limitation of the system security label field, use short category names. For compatibility with other vendors, do not use delimited identifiers, only ASCII characters, and limit name length to 30 characters.

The CREATE CATEGORY command has the following outputs:

Table 2. CREATE CATEGORY outputs
Output	Description
`CREATE CATEGORY`	The message that the system returns if the command is successful.
`ERROR: permission denied.`	You must have Manage Security privilege to create a security category.
`ERROR: object <category-name> already exists.`	The specified category exists. The category name must be different from all other category names.

Privileges required: You must have Manage Security privilege to create security categories.
Common tasks: Use the CREATE CATEGORY command to create a security category.

The following provides sample usage:

CREATE CATEGORY ARGON;