Giving the ability to see all of the objects on the system

I understand why IBM i developers should not have all object authority, *ALLOBJ, but at times I am frustrated by my inability to find objects in my partition. I do not want to do anything to them, just know that they exist. I have to find someone with a security office equivalent user profile and ask them to do a search for me.

I have found a way that this frustration can be removed. It will work on all partitions that are IBM i 7.5 or higher. I think what I am going to describe is included in the initial release. As none of the partition I have access to are running just base 7.5 I cannot check that this did not come in a Technology Refresh, TR.

Function Usages are way to be granted access to perform certain higher authorization functions, without being given that higher authorization. I was going through IBM's documentation about them when I came across:

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