Application Files – User-Id Filenames

A feature of ProFiler allows for a ‘constant’ database.  The constant database contains one record that can hold data such as the system date, period number, user-id and other company details.  These details can then be used as ‘values’ within selection criteria.

When using automatic (Q) menu’s you will often include a screen based on the constant file as the initial action allow entry of parameter data for subsequent options.  As the constant database is a one record file this means that the Q menu can’t be run by more than one user at once as either the constant database would be locked or the data being used for value matching could be changed by another user.

This new feature allows the live file pathname for the profiler application to use ‘***’ within the filename which, at run-time, is replaced by the current user-id.  Each user would then have their own constant database which wouldn’t clash with other users.