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James, In a message dated 97-06-06 12:44:48 EDT, you write: > Maybe I'm living with different people than you or others in this list > are with. :) You MUST be!!! > It's just been my experience that these are not issues to contend with. > If a user wants data off the 400 they ask which file to get, we tell > them. We may even set up logicals to make it easier. We don't have > users accessing information without prior knowledge or consent. We > "jealously guard" our files more for security than anything else. Heck > as far as I'm concerned any user can have whatever data they are > authorized to get. We'll even help them get the data. But to have a > user browse around the system and grab whatever suits there fancy? I > don't think soooooo. I guess it all depends on the shop rules. Is everyone well paid and fed in your world too -- no wars or racial hatred, my THAT would be nice :-). No offense intended, but you really DO have a nice environment! Most large sites, and many small ones, have SOME form of EIS (Executive Information System) installed these days. ShowCase, FOCUS, and just plain Query/400 (among others) are available to allow user access to data formerly proprietary to the IS department. I cannot BEGIN to detail the number of meetings that a member of my client's IS departments have been called into to explain the results of a user-defined query. Something like: Management: So why are we showing three THOUSAND shop orders open for this item, when we have closed all but two? IS: Uhh, let me run a quick SQL. Hmm, I show only two. Did you check for an "open" status on the shop order? Management: Never mind... User access to data is a REAL problem, and I'm not really sure how to address it. All I DO know is that "power users" have become "users with the power to drag you into a worthless meeting" lately... JMHO, Dean Asmussen Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc. Fuquay-Varina, NC USA E-Mail: DAsmussen@AOL.COM "In America, anyone can become President. That's one of the risks you take." -- Adlai Stephenson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the Midrange System Mailing List! To submit a new message, * * send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe from * * this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * * 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. Questions * * should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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