What Is Your User ID Default?

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What Is Your User ID Default?

The default user ID appears in the User ID field on the Source Listing Profile display. On the submenus related to Monitoring (Program Monitoring, Transaction Monitoring, and Terminal Monitoring), issue the USER command.

If you are working in a CICS region without login security, the user ID value is always set to .ANY
If you are working in a secure CICS region, the CA InterTest for CICS installation option DFLTUSER determines whether the default value assigned to the user ID is .ANY or your CICS user ID

The following table explains how the default values work when you are and are not signed on to CICS.

DFLTUSER Setting	Signed on to CICS	Not Signed on to CICS
.ANY	By default, everyone is monitored. Breakpoints are directed to the terminal where they were set.	Everyone is monitored. Breakpoints are directed to the terminal where they were set.
specific	By default, monitoring applies only to your user ID and breakpoints are displayed at whatever terminal you are using.	Not recommended, but takes the value of the default CICS user ID specified by the Systems Programmer in the CICS startup JCL. Type USER command to display this value.

Look up the current DFLTUSER value from the Primary Option Menu (fast-path 7.1.2) by performing these steps:

Use option 7 Status/Maintenance.
Select Option 1 Product Status.
Select Option 2 Global Options

This displays all installation options for IN25OPTS in alphabetic order. The DFLTUSER setting shows the default user ID setting for your system.