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Session PROFILES

At session termination CA IDMS DMLO provides an opportunity to preserve user-defined characteristics of a CA IDMS DMLO session, allowing convenient restoration of those parameters when another session is started. This set of session parameters is called a PROFILE and includes specifications of the following:

• Session Control Parameters
  • Subschema, schema, version
  • DBNAME, DBNODE, DICTNAME, DICTNODE
  • Display and processing options
  • User exit specifications
• READY modes for areas
• Abbreviations and Macro Commands (EQUATE settings)
• PF Key Assignments

Multiple PROFILEs are allowed for each user. The concept of "global" PROFILES is also supported; i.e., the system administrator may define generically useful PROFILEs which are available to all users. For efficiency, these PROFILEs are stored in a small database structure established at product installation.

At session signon you may also request a selection list of available PROFILEs. This same screen provides PROFILE maintenance capabilities, allowing you to COPY, RENAME, and KILL (delete) PROFILES.