Bottom line, dictionaries should be controlled. Period.
I lock the dicts with os-level permissions.
Just live wth EVAL restrictions. SQL not used much.
For those few cases where EVAL is important:
- references a limited copy of the full dictionary where the user can
write.
- via a 2nd F-pointer
- via the USING keyword
- or run the affected reports in background by dict owner
We happily use PRC here, & it emphasizes control of the tools such as
ED, as Susan suggests. So we do both, control tools & OS permissions.
For other shops I have written UV frontends to RCS and MS Visual
SourceSafe.
One can control:
- each dict item as a separate flat file, where there is a source
controlled directory for each dictionary.
- the entire dictionary in one controlled flat text file, using a
utility to pack and unpack. I favour this with RCS because then you can
use rcs keywords in a header section. And complicated dicts use I-,
PH-items & correlatives that reference one another, so entire dict needs
tracking & recompilation when one dict item is changed.
Chuck Stevenson
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