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Introduction

CA 2E Toolkit provides facilities both to help manage your existing user profiles, and to set up and maintain Toolkit "user profile extension attributes" for your profiles.

A user profile is the i OS object used to control user access to Toolkit, and to define what objects a user may use on the Toolkit.

There are good reasons for making full use of i OS user profiles:

• The i OS security that is obtained through user profiles is implemented at a microcode level and so is very secure.
• User profiles give you a convenient means of specifying exactly what a given user may or may not do.
• User profiles give you a convenient means of finding out exactly who did what, when; that is, they provide a means for system auditing.
• User profiles give you a convenient means of costing system usage.

A Toolkit user profile corresponds to the i OS definition; that is, it is a description of what a particular user may do on the computer, accessed by a single password, and guarded by security implemented at the microcode level. Toolkit allows extensions to the attributes that can be given to a user profile.

The Toolkit user profile extension attributes are mainly concerned with the initiating of interactive jobs; that is with controlling user access onto the system, and include an initial library list, an initial menu, and a suspension status. Users may be suspended so that they cannot sign on.