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From: peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Anyone have Progress beefs?
Message-ID: <1990Apr14.125655.888@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 14 Apr 90 12:56:55 GMT
References: <26214C8D.42DD@telly.on.ca>
Organization: Peter Radig EDV-Beratung, Frankfurt, West Germany
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evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>I am considering Progress for a number of database applications. Before
>taking the full plunge, I am interested in hearing from those of you who
>have reached its limits, or have come across things it cannot do.

One limit I have reached recently is the short user permission lines.
On the one hand, you're allowed to specify user list for the specific
operations (such as record add, update or delete), but on the other hand
the maximum input line for this user lists is approx. 60 characters.

In the examples of the Progress documentation there are only user groups
mentioned (e.g. accounting, sales etc.), but think of a bank application
in which every transaction which updates the database
- must record the name of the user who made the initial transaction
- must record the name of the user who controlled the transaction and
  released it
(and both users have to be distinct). Here it's not possible to use
group users and so Progress has problems to keep more than, say, 10 user
names in the data dictionary. (Anyway, you can write your own user checking
system, but as long as a user has access to the Progress 4GL she/he may
access the database in any fashion.)

Peter
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