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Passkey

Control Access by Other Users

You can allow other users to access the applications you develop through ASF by issuing passkeys for your tables. Passkeys provide security for data tables. By granting and removing passkeys, you control what other users can do with the tables you create. For example, if you give a user an ADD passkey for your table, the user can add rows to the table.

You can give a passkey for an individual table, your user ID, which allows the user receiving the passkey to access all of your tables, or to a folder (CA-ICMS users only). Passkeys can be given, deleted, and displayed through the following screens:

• Passkey Function (PASS) provides a menu of passkey activities.
• Give Passkeys (GPAS) allows you to issue passkeys to another user. The passkeys given determine what the user can do with your table(s).
• Delete Passkeys (DPAS) allows you to remove passkeys previously given to another user.
• Show Passkeys Given (PASG) allows you to display a list of all the users to whom you have issued passkeys for a particular table, or for your user ID. The list shows which passkeys you have given each user.
• Show Passkeys Held (PASH) allows you to display a list of all the passkeys you have received from other users.