Progress/400
Product Guide


Application Security

In standard Progress, the Data Dictionary handles both database and application security. When you use Progress/400 with DB2/400 database files, you use OS/400 security facilities. This section briefly describes security features that you might want to consider in addition to the OS/400 features. See "System Administration," for more information on how the DataServer implements security in the OS/400 environment. Also, see the AS/400 Security Concepts and Planning Guide .

Code your applications to check for a user ID. Once a user enters identification, your procedures can verify that the user is authorized to run individual procedures within the application. However, if your application runs on many different machines with many users, you probably do not want to specify user IDs in your procedures. In this case, build a database file on the AS/400 that contains security information and can be accessed before running specific applications.


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