ACCESS Procedure Reference

SECFILE Statement

Specifies parameters for the NATURAL SECURITY system file.

Optional statement
Applies to:	access descriptor or view descriptor
Interacts with:	SECURITY

Syntax
Details

Syntax

SECFILE (NUMBER | NUM = Natural-Security-file-number
PASSWORD | PW = Adabas-password
CIPHER|CC = Adabas-cipher-code
DBID = Adabas-database-identifier);

Details

The SECFILE statement enables you to specify the ADABAS file number, password, cipher code, and database identifier for the NATURAL SECURITY system file.

If you specified SECURITY=YES in the access descriptor, you cannot change the values for the password and the cipher code in the view descriptor based on this access descriptor. However, if no values were specified in the parent access descriptor, then the values can be entered in the view descriptor, even when the SECURITY=YES statement has been issued.

Note that you can associate a password, cipher code, and database identifier with an ADABAS file number, system file, and security file.

Natural-Security-file-number: is the ADABAS file number of the NATURAL SECURITY system file. This file contains the NATURAL SECURITY library identifier, user identifier, and passwords.
Adabas-password: is an ADABAS password, which provides security protection at the file or data-field level, or on the basis of a value at the logical-record level. The value is written to the access descriptor in encrypted form.
Adabas-cipher code: is an ADABAS cipher code, which is a numeric code for ciphering and deciphering data into and from an ADABAS file. The value is written to the access descriptor in encrypted form.
Adabas-database-identifier: is the ADABAS database identifier (number) to be accessed. The database identifier is a numerical value from 1 to 65,535 that is assigned to each ADABAS database.

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