This is true. You can easily check this if you have DBGENRL by using
option 1.1 (LIST USER CLASSES)

Database: WWA.FILES.WWA                             Wed, Jun 16, 1999,
8:27 am

      Class #    Password

        1        READER
        2        WRITER
        5        PASSWD05

Rick Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R
Cleveland, Ohio



Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Ernie Newton writes:
>
> > I'm stumped.  I'm getting the following error inside a COBOL program...
> >
> >  TURBOIMAGE ERROR AT $0000f3a8; RETURN STATUS = -23
> >  DBPUT, MODE 1, ON TEST-SCORE OF TESTING.DATABASE
> >  USER (CLASS) LACKS WRITE ACCESS TO DATA SET
> >
> >  These are the facts:
> >  Database is opened in mode 1 and is locked.
> >  User has proper capabilities to run this program.
> >  Program was compiled with proper capabilities.
> >
> >  Is there something I'm not seeing?
>
> Even though the user, group, account and program all have proper write access
> capabilities, the database was probably opened with a particular password
> that doesn't allow write access (e.g., "READER" (a fictionalized password) is
> often restricted to read-only access of dataitems and datasets, whereas an
> equally fictionalized "WRITER" would get you write access to the data). Such
> passwords get you "class" access to a database and exist on top of whatever
> other MPE security exists.
>
> Wirt Atmar