Re: Coolest code you've ever written

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

At 05:52 PM 3/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>My favorite project was a program generator I wrote back in '87.

  Mine wasn't as ambitious, but it filled a need we had in /36 security scheme.

  I had a client that had a software package that didn't have its own 
security scheme.  I needed to retrofit the system to separate capabilities 
by department.  I couldn't use resource security on the files, since 
different departments needed full access to the same files, but needed 
segregation based on certain data. Example: The credit department needed to 
be able to update the credit limit (which was in the customer master file), 
but they weren't allowed to update any other customer master data.

  I did not look forward to rewriting the package, so I searched for 
alternative ways to accomplish the same goal.  After analyzing the package, 
the common thread seemed to be their menus.  There was almost no menu 
overlap between departments.  Ding!  The light bulb went on.

  I developed menu level security, using the built-in S/36 security.  This 
meant that they got a message @ their terminal if they tried to access a 
forbidden menu.  A msg. also automatically got sent to the console to alert 
the operator of the attempt.   The best part was that I didn't have to 
touch the existing application code!

  -mark
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