Granting permissions to public domain gives the specified privileges on the table or view to any user with access to the system.

For example:
GRANT SELECT ON PUB.STATE TO PUBLIC;
COMMIT;
The GRANT statement is easily modified to make previously restricted columns accessible to the public, as in the following example.
GRANT UPDATE 
ON Item (ItemNum, ItemName, CatDescription)
TO PUBLIC;
Note: When using OpenEdge SQL, only users who are given permission by using the SQL GRANT statement can access the tables.