Re: System administration without production data access?

I've heard of a few shops having this "emergency" user profile available 
for their developers.  One of our people went to a user group meeting in 
which Charlie Massoglia suggested the same thing, and this person wanted 
it here.  When I asked him when was the last time he was working off hours 
and needed this, (and he 'was' here for years), he couldn't think of a 
time.  There are several problems with this concept:
1)  'Most' times you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
2)  Once they have access to it, they'll find all sorts of reasons to use 
it, versus fixing their problems the right way.  For example some of the 
developers are upset that they can't look at one joblog.  My suggestion, 
fix it so that it doesn't have to run under a user profile with *ALLOBJ, 
and your problem will be solved.  Hasn't happened yet.
3)  Some of our developers already have multiple id's on our development 
machine.  Once they have one with *ALLOBJ they tend to use that profile 
for everything except for rare occasions versus the other way around.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com