Creation password at runtime

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:02:14AM -0500, Cesar Davila Jr wrote:
> I've been working on this with Bruce and we understand what you are saying
> and agree with it. So we did as suggested and placed the lookups in the
> processing tables without the variable names so that we can be prompted for
> the creation passwords when we tokenize.
> 
> What we are encountering is that the user is being prompted for the creation
> password when they start using the application. The users are not "creating"
> anything other than data. In fact, the application Bruce is working on is
> simply trying to browse a series detail files.

I believe those two paragraphs are contradictory, alas.

A creation password is prompted for when a lookup to the file it
protects is "bound" by filepro.  With fixed-named lookups, that binding
happens at compile time.

With variable-named lookups, that binding does not happen until
runtime.

I understand your problem, but I also understand their implementation,
and I see why the other requirements of their implementation lead to
this requirement.

And, honestly, I don't see any way they can satisfy those requirements
and not cause this problem.

Cheers,
-- jr 'much as I hate to admit it' a
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