5.2.4 Initial Public Access to Objects

When a field, file, process, function, partition, template, system variable or multilingual variable is created a field called 'Initial public access' is specified. It has allowable values ALL, NORMAL or NONE. The following table summarizes exactly what access each of the 'initial public access' values grants to each different object type for both access classes (DEFINITION and DATA).

Object Type Access Class Action ALL NORMAL NONE FIELD DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y   FILE DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y   DATA READ ADD CHANGE DELETE  Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y   PROCESS or FUNCTION DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y   PARTITION DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y   TEMPLATE DEF USE MODIFY DELETE      Y Y Y Y   SYSTEM   VARIABLE DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y  Y   MULTILINGUAL VARIABLE DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y   WEBLET DEF USE MODIFY DELETE Y Y Y Y