Identifying managers for loadusers self-service portal role

You will have to isolate an attribute that all users share in each group. This may not work with your one offs. What do you mean by automate?

HI Matt,  Thanks for your reply.  I was wondering how other clients identify who gets MSS versus ESS - by the employee's HR11 job class, or because their position is on HR07 (supervisor table), or whatever.

Regarding automating this:  I have a daily ProcessFlow extract from HR and from LSA/RM.  I'm writing an application that compares the employees on HR to the RMID's in LSA and building a "loaduser" XML file to add new RMID's, inactive terminated RMID's, or make any necessary changes (name changes, people promoted from staff to management, etc.).  I then plan to automate the daily running of the loadusers command using the XML file built by this application.  I'm a new client - is this pretty typical of what people do to automatically maintain their RMID's for self-service?

I personally recommend the supervisor (HR07/HRSUPER) approach, since that is how MSS works. Your approach for automating this is valid -- do you own ProcessFlow Integrator?

Great! Good point, thanks for the confirmation - I will use HR07/HRSuper. I'm thinking that if I also extract the Supervisor and Indirect Supervisor position numbers from the Employee HR11, then I can limit my MSS people to only those who actually have direct reports.
Yes, I have ProcessFlow Integrator. Although I've had no training at all, I'm getting pretty good at writing flows using the time honored trial-and-error method (to create extract/interface files to feed data to other systems). My only trouble is creating the WebSphere type trees and maps. I don't know how to create those (usually I just copy an existing one and edit it for some other purpose, but that's a pretty inefficient way to do it). I hope to get some training someday, but for the foreseeable future am buried and can't take the time (for Lawson there is just me besides a very-part-time SysAdmin).

You probably don't need any typetrees for this project...you can use ResourceQuery, ResourceUpdate, and DME/Query nodes to extract and update the relevant information.