I manage a team of sys dba's (physical), not a DBA myself , who must work with app dba's (logical) in other groups. We have had an ongoing war between these 2 groups for past year related to releasing access to SUDO. My sysdba's say the app team should be able to do everything they need to do with the SYSADM priv, the app team provided these examples as to where they need SUDO in a SYBASE env:

- Perform DBMS logical data restoration
- Application table data transfer between systems and databases
- Create and maintain application database objects
- Monitor application object characteristics & perform tuning actions.

What do you think? Should SUDO be made avl, and what requirements should be met to gain access?