Thanks for the reply.

If a user needs to be able to monitor and operate a Production would they not still need access to that data base?  Also, that table is granted via %ENSROLE_OPERATOR which such a user will need?

Thanks for the explanation, I assumed it worked something like that.

Do you agree with that approach though or would you prefer something more like Robert's description?

In my mind you don't create a database based on a specific file so the DAT should be swappable and retain the database settings, other database settings work that way.

It's good to hear this is going to be added.  In the meantime we found using explicit ftps got around it but that may depend on how the ftps server is configured.

For explicit ftps I got a very helpful answer in a previous post

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