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Changes your password for the primary data base.
PA[SSWORD]= [password]
- 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.
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.
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