Syntax for Securing Global Resources › CREATE USER PROFILE › CREATE USER PROFILE Parameters

CREATE USER PROFILE Parameters

profile-name

Identifies the profile to be created.

Profile-name can be at most 18 characters in length.

ATTRIBUTEs attribute-specification

Specifies one or more attributes of the profile.

An attribute is a keyword and an associated value for the keyword.

attribute-keyword =

Specifies the attribute keyword.

An identifier of not more than eight characters can be used as an attribute keyword.

Note: Certain keywords have special significance to the CA IDMS runtime environment. For a list of these keywords and discussion of their meaning, see the chapter "System Profiles" in the CA IDMS System Tasks and Operator Commands Guide.

&USER

Is a substitution parameter that supplies the attribute value.

The value of &USER is equal to the user ID of the user on whose behalf the user profile is invoked.

&GROUP

Is a substitution parameter representing the current group. The value of &GROUP is equal to the name of the default group for the current user.

&SYSTEM

Is a substitution parameter that supplies the attribute value.

The value of &SYSTEM is equal to the SYSTEM ID value for the current system in the SYSTEM statement of system generation, or 'BATCH' in the case of local mode execution.

prefix

Supplies a prefix for the value in the substitution parameter.

suffix

Supplies a suffix for the value in the substitution parameter.

attribute-value

Supplies the value portion of the attribute specification.

Attribute-value may be at most 32 characters in length and must be enclosed in single quotation marks if it contains embedded blanks or special characters other than @,$, and #.

OVERRIDE

Specifies whether the user can modify the attribute specification with a DCUF SET PROFILE command.

YES allows the user to override the attribute specification. NO prevents the user from overriding the attribute specification.