Using Your Development Environment › Controlling User Access › Designer User Type

Designer User Type

A designer (*DSNR) can change any aspect of the model, both data relationships and functional specifications. Whether more than one designer can use the model at one time depends on the current setting of the Open Access (YOPNACC) model value. If YOPNACC is set to:

• *NO, only one user can use the model as a designer. In this case, no other user can access the model while the designer is using it.
• *YES, multiple designers and programmers can use the model at the same time. In addition,CA 2E enables file and field locking to prevent two designers from updating database relations at the same time.

You can control Open Access either by setting the YOPNACC model value or by using the Edit Model (YEDTMDL) command.

A designer can also have *LOCK authority (*DSLK). This authority allows the designer to place a permanent, exclusive lock on a function or access path that only a designer can unlock. In addition, only a designer with *LOCK authority can change the YOPNACC model value.

Designers are also responsible for synchronizing the model after updating a database relation. Synchronizing ensures that any changes to the relations in a model have been reflected in the CA 2E file entries of the model. To synchronize the model, a designer must have exclusive use of the model.

The CA 2E Designer (*DSNR) Menu provides a list of tasks available to users having *DSNR authority. You can access this menu by entering the following at a command line.

YSTRY2 library-list-name MENU(DSNR)