RE: object authority

Mona,

1.  If you use AS/400 Group profiles and your users all belong to one group, 
you could specify OWNER(*GRPPRF) and as their objects are created, they would 
be owned by the group profile.  For all but very small companies, this 
generally isn't acceptable for business process/security reasons.  And, ALL 
objects, not just query outfiles, would be owned by the group profile - you 
might not want that!

2.      You could create a library (named something like "QRYTEMP") specific 
for the creation of outfiles, have queries create their output to this library 
using unique file names, and have a scheduled job that would, once a day (i.e. 
when no one "should" be on the system), clear the library.  This would resolve 
the problem and limit your storage exposure to one day.  It wouldn't work if 
they way the users download the files is from some command or function that 
needs a generic file name.

3.      You could even get a little fancier (as we've done) with the QRYTEMP 
idea and allow files to exist for a certain number of days (we allow 7 days) 
before they are purged from QRYTEMP.  This takes a program (I'd be willing to 
share the code), but it allows for the possibility that a user may not download 
the file immediately.  We use this approach and have users store both their 
ad-hoc queries and their outfiles in the QRYTEMP library - and they are 
automatically removed after 7 days.

==Kevin Brunk
The Butler Company

-----Original Message-----
From: Mona Ferriols [mailto:mon.ferriols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:04 AM
To: Jbausers-L (E-mail)
Subject: [SYSTEM21] object authority


We do a lot of data downloading to file here. To save on storage we use 1
generic outfile that is saved in QGPL, and that in turn is downloaded by
users. My problem is, Whenever a user runs a query, his authority for the
file becomes *all and PUBLIC becomes *change. If a second user runs another
query using the same outfile, he gets a message saying he's not authorized
to use the file. If i grant him *all authority to the file, the next user
after him experiences the same error. I've also used GRTOBJAUT command but
no dice

Mon Ferriols 
Data Management and Control
Ionics EMS, Inc. Plant 7
Tel: (049) 545-9751
Email: mon.ferriols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: www.ionicsgroup.com

"ERP is not just computers and software, but PEOPLE, PROCESSES and
FUNCTIONS."


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