Information for the Database Administrator

SAS Security with CA-Datacom/DB

To secure data from accidental update or deletion, you can do the following on the SAS side of the interface:

Set up all access descriptors yourself.
Set up all view descriptors yourself and give them to users on a selective basis.
Give users read-only access or no access to the SAS library in which you store the access descriptors. Read-only access prevents users from editing access descriptors and enables them to see only the fields selected for each view descriptor. No access prevents users from doing LIST ALL commands to see the contents of the access descriptor.
Set up several access descriptors for different users.
Use the DDBUPD systems option to have a read-only system. (For details, see System Options for the CA-Datacom/DB Interface.)