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<h1 class="topictitle1">Access intents</h1>
<div><p>When a program opens a file, it must specify how it intends to
work with the records in the file: read, add, update, delete, or a combination
of these.</p>
<div class="section"><p>Of course, to successfully perform these operations, the job,
user or both running the program must have the corresponding data authorities.
The <span class="keyword">iSeries™ server</span> does not check
to make sure all data authorities exist when the file is opened, but it does
check for each required data authority when the corresponding I/O operation
is done using the file. The <span class="keyword">System/36™</span> does
check these data authorities at open time; therefore, a program may no longer
work using a remote file on a <span class="keyword">System/36</span>,
even though the requester's data authorities to the remote file are the same
as for a local file (which will work).</p>
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<div class="section"><p>For example, assume that a program is used by two groups of users
on an <span class="keyword">iSeries server</span> to access the
same local <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> file. Group
A has only *READ authority, while group B has *READ, *ADD, and *UPDATE. The
program always opens the file for *READ, *ADD, and *UPDATE. But it has a <em>read
only</em> logic path that is used when a member of group A calls the program.
In this way, no authority exceptions are encountered, even though exceptions
would be created if members of group A attempted to add or update records.
Now, if this program is redirected to a remote <span class="keyword">System/36</span> file
to which members of both user groups have the same data authorities as they
had to the local <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> file,
the program might not work for members of group A. This is because
the <span class="keyword">System/36</span> may reject requests
to open the file when the requester does not have data authorities matching
those specified in the access intent list accompanying the open request.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbae5amc.htm" title="Access methods control what subsets of functions can be performed after a particular remote file is opened. This might mean that an iSeries program, or a group of programs sharing a non-iSeries file, cannot do all the same operations that are possible using a file that is on the local iSeries server.">Work with access methods for DDM</a></div>
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