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PASSWORD=
Changes your password for the primary data base.
Syntax
PA[SSWORD]= [password]
Parameters
password is the word you have been given by the data base
administrator to use when accessing the data base.
You must enter this word exactly as it was
created. A distinction is made between passwords
entered in lowercase or entered in uppercase.
Discussion
You can change your password, thus changing the group of data to which
you have access. QUERY first closes the current data base before
attempting to open the data base with the new password.
If you are signed on as the creator and enter a semicolon in place of the
data base password, you will be given read and write access to all data
items and data sets in the specified data base. This is true even if
there are no passwords specified for the data base.
To take advantage of the non-echoing feature of QUERY, enter the
PASSWORD= command without the password parameter and press RETURN. QUERY
will prompt you for the password and, when entered, it will not be echoed
back.
If you enter an invalid password, you are assigned a user class zero that
allows you read and/or write access to some or all of the data sets or
data items in the specified data base. When this happens, the following
message is returned.
PASSWORD DOES NOT MATCH ANY DEFINED FOR THE SPECIFIED
DATA BASE; USER CLASS ZERO (0) WAS ASSIGNED
If there are no data sets and/or data items which you can access, the
following message is returned.
BAD PASSWORD
If you are not sure that you will have access to the data items you need,
you can change the password with the DEFINE, DATA-BASE=, or PASSWORD=
command.
>PA=CLERK
>AD INVENTORY
ILLEGAL ACCESS
>PA=DO-ALL
>AD INVENTORY
STOCK# =>>
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In the example above, the CLERK password is specified. The request to
add an entry to the INVENTORY data set is rejected since CLERK does not
allow write access to it. When the password is changed to DO-ALL, QUERY
allows the user to add to the INVENTORY data set.