Robert,

If you wish to restrict access to a verb there is a facility in UniData whereby you can use a Remote Item definintion in the VOC with security subroutine and is covered in the Using UniData Manual

The section in the manual shows the following example

Using remote items for security

You can supply a security routine to be executed by the remote item. Remote items enable you to name a cataloged subroutine in attribute 4 which is executed when a user invokes the remote VOC record. The subroutine must have one argument, and return a value of 1 (true) or 0 (false). When a user invokes a remote item that executes a security subroutine, the remote item will not execute unless the subroutine returns 1 (true).

The following screen shows an example of a remote item you could create for the ECL LIST command:

:AE VOC LIST
Top of "LIST" in "VOC", 4 lines, 26 characters.

*--: P
001: R
002: OTHER_VOC
003: LIST
004: SECTEST2
Bottom.
*--:
With this VOC record in place, when you execute the LIST command, UniData executes a security subroutine called SECTEST2. If that subroutine returns a value of 1, UniData executes the record LIST in a file called OTHER_VOC.

The next screen shows the security subroutine:
:AE BP SECTEST2
Top of "SECTEST2" in "BP", 4 lines, 66 characters.
*--: P
001: SUBROUTINE SECTEST2(OKAY)
002: COMMON /SECUR/ VALID
003: OKAY = VALID
004: RETURN
Bottom.
*--:

In the following example, the subroutine obtains the value of VALID from named COMMON. The value can be set by another subroutine or program. The following screen shows what happens if VALID is 0 (false) and a user executes the ECL LIST  command:

:CATALOG BP SECTEST2
:LIST VOC WITH F1 = 'PA'
Not a verb
LIST
:

The next screen shows what happens if VALID is 1 (true):
:LIST VOC WITH F1 = 'PA'
LIST VOC WITH F1 = 'PA' 17:55:22 Dec 06 2011 1
VOC.......
ECLTYPE
CP
CT
SP.OPEN
listdict
LISTDICT

Regards,

Jonathan that looks like it will solve my issue thanks for that thorough explanation

Jonathan  I have been unable to get that to work

1) i tried setting ecltype to U because we have it set to a P - did not work

2) could you please provide me syntax that would allow me to do that for the LOGTO verb

ED MD LOGTO
Top of "LOGTO" in "MD", 4 lines, 14 characters.
001: R
002:
003: LOGTO

Thanks

ED MD LOGTOED MD LOGTO
Top of "LOGTO" in "MD", 4 lines, 14 characters.
001: R
002:
003: LOGTO
004: VPROGRAM

Robert,

In your example attribute 2 is blank, it needs to contain the file where the true verb can be found.

Here is a worked example for you from my own machine.

Step 1 - Create a new simple subroutine, compile and catalog I choose a direct catalog

:AE BP LOGTOSEC
Top of New "LOGTOSEC" in "BP".
*--: I
001= SUBROUTINE LOGTOSEC(OKAY)
002= OKAY = 1
003= RETURN
004= END
*--: FIB
Filed "LOGTOSEC" in file "BP".

Compiling Unibasic: BP\\LOGTOSEC in mode 'u'.
compilation finished

:CATALOG BP LOGTOSEC DIRECT

Step 2 - Create a file to store the original verb(s)  in

:CREATE.FILE SECVOC 3
Create file D_SECVOC, modulo/1,blocksize/1024
Hash type = 0
Create file SECVOC, modulo/3,blocksize/1024
Hash type = 3
Added "@ID", the default record for UniData to DICT SECVOC.

Step 3 - I copied the original Verb for LOGTO to the SECVOC file.

:AE SECVOC LOGTO
Top of New "LOGTO" in "SECVOC".
*--: LOAD VOC LOGTO
'Q'uit, or starting line > 1, ending line > 2
At line 2, 2 lines loaded.
*--: FI
Filed "LOGTO" in file "SECVOC".
:CT SECVOC LOGTO
SECVOC:

LOGTO:
V
LOGTO

Step 4 - Modify the original LOGTO verb in the VOC

attribute 1  = R

attribute 2 = The name of the file where the verb was copied to

attribute 3 = The name of the verb in the file defined in attribute 2

attribute 4 = The security subroutine to run

:AE VOC LOGTO
Top of "LOGTO" in "VOC", 4 lines, 23 characters.
*--: P
001: R
002: SECVOC
003: LOGTO
004: LOGTOSEC
Bottom.
*--:

Step 5 With OKAY set to 1 in the security program, LOGTO works
:LOGTO DEMO

Step 6 Go back to the original account and now change OKAY to 0 in the program

I only had to recompile as I had a direct catalog

:AE BP LOGTOSEC
Top of "LOGTOSEC" in "BP", 4 lines, 45 characters.
001: SUBROUTINE LOGTOSEC(OKAY)
002: OKAY = 1
002: OKAY = 0
*--: FIB
Filed "LOGTOSEC" in file "BP".

Compiling Unibasic: BP\\LOGTOSEC in mode 'u'.
compilation finished

Step 7 Now try LOGTO

:LOGTO DEMO
Not a verb
 LOGTO
:

The piece I was missing was copying the current verb to a different file , makes sense and  got it working

Jonathan  thanks again for your prompt follow up