VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 7
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Bypassing MPE Security
A feature named Global Read is available to allow non-account users access to local folder files
without having to release the folders. An example of using this feature is when a site wants to store
all folder files in the same account but does not want to release the folders. VISTA users can read
the reports within the account where they are stored but cannot read the contents of a folder with
MPE utilities.
Global Read capability bypasses MPE security so you should make sure that all users of VISTA
have been defined in the VISTA database. You will also want to assign folder profiles or folders (at
run time) to the users. This prevents users from reading reports that are not assigned to them.
One precautionary step you can take is to create a user profile record of @,@.@
(session,user.account) and then assign a dummy folder profile to the record. When a user executes
VISTA and they have not been defined in the system, they will match on the user record with
@,@.@ and will not be allowed to view reports.
To enable Global Read capability, set the JCW GLOBALREAD to a value of one for each session
that executes VISTA. The JCW must be set prior to executing VISTA.
Example:
:SETJCW GLOBALREAD,1
Note. The VISTAINI file’s $ALLOW-GLOBALREAD option must be enabled to
allow global read access. This can be used as a mechanism to prevent users from
having global read access.