Re: Query/400 to RPG program

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is still the users data.  Your statement about the shipping department 
and payroll is not a good example because the payroll department are the 
users of that data, not the shipping department.  You're right.  It is our 
responsibility to set up the databases and security in such a way as to make 
sure the rules are enforced and such.  However there is a market out there 
for Query, etc, and GUI based query packages.  Therefore the users, and the 
management who authorizes these purchases, wants the users to have access.  
Do we want them to blame the 400 for not being flexible enough to perform 
ad hoc queries versus some PC based package, when it was really our fault?





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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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