Read only privileges

[Robert Deskin]

Easy? No. Whether it's difficult or not depends on how fancy you need to be. Also, PowerHouse application security does nothing for relational. That's controlled by the database itself.

Once you start with application security, you may to have everyone specified in some manner. It's been a while since I sat down and actually mapped out a scheme. And I've never gotten into OpenVMS enhanced security. However, take a look at the PERMIT statement in PDL or the equivalent in PHD which are the various record/element/class security screens. Basically, to restrict an application security class to read only access, you restrict the class to read access at the file level. Then you decide which elements are to be accessed and how. The catch is that once you start specifying a class, you need to specify another class that has write access, assuming there are users that have that access. And you can't give UNKNOWN full access because that overrides the other classes. There are some examples in the manual.

If there's a specific logon user that only gets read access, it may be easier to allow access to QUIZ and only specific QUICK screens. Keep in mind that if a screen has write access but the user doesn't, they get a relatively nasty message.

Bob


On 2013-09-02, at 3:53 PM, T J <cassinih at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>       Is there an easy way  to provide READ only privileges/Access to a Powerhouse Dictionary 
> Application Security Class. Thanks.
> 
> Version:   8.40.G
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