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ALTER SYSTEM PROFILE Parameters

profile-name

Identifies the profile to be modified.

Profile-name must be a profile that has been defined with the CREATE SYSTEM PROFILE statement.

ATTRIBUTEs attribute-specification

Modifies the existing specification of one or more attributes to be used by the system to control the user session.

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

attribute-keyword =

Specifies the attribute keyword and indicates that value to be associated with the keyword follows.

For a list of valid keywords for system-defined attributes, see Table of attributes defined by CA IDMS.

Special keywords and their meanings are as follows:

• CLIST—Specifies that attribute-value identifies a clist to be invoked after the user is signed on
• INCLUDE—Specifies that attribute-value identifies another profile to be included in the current profile. INCLUDE supports up to ten levels of nesting.

&USER

Supplies a substitution parameter representing the current user. The value of &USER is equal to the user ID of the current user.

&GROUP

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

&SYSTEM

Supplies a substitution parameter representing the current system. The value of &SYSTEM is equal to the name of the system to which the user is signed on.

prefix

Supplies a prefix for the value in the substitution parameter.

suffix

Supplies a suffix for the value in the substitution parameter.

attribute-value

Provides the value portion of the attribute specification

NULL

Removes the keyword identified in attribute-keyword from the named profile.

OVERRIDE

Indicates if 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.

If OVERRIDE is not specified for the attribute specification, YES is the default.