Hi folks,
I have a developer that when they try to go into _SYS_BIC and look at COLUMN VIEWS that are generated from views that they themselves have created, they can not right click on them and choose OPEN DEFINITION. They get an error that they don't have the needed privilege. I however am able to do this so I experimented with all of my roles until I determined that it seems the MONITORING role is allowing me to view this. Now analyzing the MONITORING role I believe it's the system privilege called 'CATALOG READ' that is responsible for allowing this. However I can't prove this theory because I'm not authorized to assign CATALOG READ directly to myself (ie: just the system privilege without assigning MONITORING role which also has other elements).
Can somebody confirm if CATALOG READ is indeed what allows user to click OPEN DEFINITION on column views? And also are you aware of any other role besides MONITORING to provide this access?
Thanks!
-Patrick