Re: Query/400 to RPG program

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I'm not picking on you, but you made a false statement that I've heard often
enough to push my button! <g>

It is -not- the users data.

Users are employees and it is their employers data. He who foots the bill, owns
the goods.

IMHO, the role of IT/MIS is a stewardship role answerable to the employer, not 
the
user.  At the same time, it is to the best interest of the employer to have 
IT/MIS
permit access to corporate data.  The tenant of the IT/MIS department is the
keeper of the keys.

A data base should not be open for public consumption.  It's not the shipping
departments business to inquire as to what the A/P clerk is getting paid.

So restrictions are necessary.  That's our job to enforce, it's the employer to
decide, it's the user to live with.

J. Kilgore


Rob Berendt wrote:

> What is so bad about Query?  Is this some sort of programmers union
> uprising?  'The users are access their own data without going through
> us!  Wait, lets remove the easy maintainability of Query and put it into RPG!'
>

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