RE: Enforcing Read Only Access on files open for maintenance

Hi Jerry

Apart from Rob's idea (which looks interesting) unless the box is reasonably
well secured this could be difficult. In any event, *ALLOBJ will always
trump whatever you think of from an authority perspective.

Another option would be to lock the files, although off hand I'm not sure
what lock you would need to leave read access available (*EXCLRD ?). Of
course you'd also have to make sure the job locking the files stayed active
"forever" and would need to allow for this in your backup scripts.

This is what some of the HA vendors do to prevent access on the target
system and I;m figuring they have had plenty of time to think about the
various options...

Hope this helps
Regards
Evan Harris

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Subject: Enforcing Read Only Access on files open for maintenance

Not sure if the title is 'correct' for this discussion but here is what I

need

to analyze:

We want to purge some rather large files by moving (identified) records

into

an image of the files that will reside in a different (Purge) library. The
Purge library will contain only physical files and all related LF's and

SQL

indexes.

Since users will need to be able to access the data in the Purge library,

I

need to ensure they cannot update it since it is now 'historical'.

I'd prefer that the users be able to use the same programs to access the
production and purged data. An option from their initial menu will allow

them

to add/remove the Purge library to/from the top of their library list.

The question is this: Is it practical/possible to just change the object
authority of all of the objects in the Purge library to read only? Will

this

prevent unwanted updates to the historical data - even though the
existing/unmodified programs (used for production data) may attempt to
maintain the data? Would SQL updates (with *commit = NO) be able to update

the

'read only' data in the Purge library?

Any gotcha's? Suggestions?

Thanks!

Regards, Jerry