You can store user data under a particular user key ( user_key) with the XUSER tool. When the Database Manager CLI or the C/C++-Precompiler is called or when an SAP system is started with the option -U <user_key>, this XUSER data is accessed.
· Microsoft Windows 2000/Microsoft Windows XP: You can manage individual user data in this way if, for example, more than one database user is using the same host and each user is logging on under a different name.
· UNIX: You can manage individual user data in this way if, for example, more than one database user is using the same Home directory and each user is logging on under a different name.
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1. The database administrator (DBA operator) sets up a database user using the relevant CREATE USER statement.
2. The database administrator informs the operating system user what this database user’s data is.
3. The operating system user saves the database user’s data using XUSER.
See Using XUSER
Applications such as SAP DB Loader and the Database Manager GUI, and applications that use the ODBC interface (for example, SQL Studio) have no way of accessing XUSER data.