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Lead Article - Security

Managing Authorities to IFS Objects

To manage the authorities to objects in the IFS, you can use either green-screen CL commands or the Navigator for i interface.

By Carol Woodbury

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 7 of IBM i Security Administration and Compliance: Third Edition, by Carol Woodbury.

The WRKAUT (Work with Authority), CHGAUT (Change Authority), and DSPAUT (Display Authority) commands provide the green-screen interface. When issuing these commands, you identify the object by specifying a pathname rather than using the traditional library_name/object_name *objtype naming convention you’re accustomed to. For example, to work with the authorities to the object proj1.txt in the directory /home/cjw/projects, you’d use this command:

Feature Article - Programming

ILE RPG Prototyping Primer Keywords

Prototype (PR) and procedure interface (PI) D-specs are special and different from a regular D-spec data structure, so they have some special keywords that apply only to them.

by David Shirey

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of 21st Century RPG: /Free, ILE, and MVC, by David Shirey.

In an earlier excerpt, we explored ILE RPG's prototype structure.  Now let's look at PR- and PI-specific Keywords.

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