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<h1 class="topictitle1">Create a group profile</h1>
<div><p>This article describes how to create a group profile. You can use
a group profile to define authority for a group of users, rather than giving
authority to each user individually.</p>
<div class="p">After you create a job description, you can create the group profile using
the information from Part 2 of the User Group Description form. <ol><li>Use the Work with User Profiles command. Type <samp class="codeph">WRKUSRPRF *ALL</samp>.
Initially, the display lists the profiles supplied by IBM<sup>®</sup>.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If you see the Work with User
Enrollment display, press F21 to change to intermediate assistance level. </div>
</li>
<li>To create a new profile, type <kbd class="userinput">1</kbd> in the <em>Opt</em> (option)
column and profile name in the User Profile column. Press the Enter key.<pre class="screen"> Work with User Profiles
Type options, press Enter.
1=Create 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display
12=Work with objects by owner
User
Opt Profile Text
<strong>1</strong> <strong>DPTSM</strong>
QDOC Document User Profile
QSECOFR Security Officer User Profile</pre>
</li>
<li>Type information from your User Group Description form into the appropriate
fields.</li>
<li>Use the Tab key to skip over any fields where you want to use the default
value.</li>
<li>Press F10 (Additional parameters).</li>
<li>Page down.<pre class="screen"> Create User Profile (CRTUSRPRF)
Type choices, press Enter.
User profile . . . . . . . . > <strong>DPTSM</strong>
User password . . . . . . . . . <strong>*none</strong>
Set password to expired . . . . *NO
Status . . . . . . . . . . . . *ENABLED
User class . . . . . . . . . . *USER
Assistance level . . . . . . . *SYSVAL
Current library . . . . . . . . *CRTDFT
Initial program to call . . . . <strong>cpsetup</strong>
Library . . . . . . . . . . . <strong>cppgmlib</strong>
Initial menu . . . . . . . . . <strong>cpmain</strong>
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . <strong>cppgmlib</strong>
Limit capabilities . . . . . . <strong>*yes</strong>
Text ’description’. . . . . . . <strong>Sales and Marketing</strong></pre>
</li>
<li>Enter the remaining fields from your User Group Description form on the
additional pages of the display and press the Enter key.<pre class="screen"> Create User Profile
Additional Parameters
Special authority . . . . . . . *USRCLS
.
.
Job description . . . . . . . . <strong>DPTSM</strong>
Library . . . . . . . . . . . <strong>QGPL</strong></pre>
<pre class="screen"></pre>
</li>
<li>Check messages.<pre class="screen"> Create User Profile
Group authority . . . . . . . . *NONE
.
.
Print device . . . . . . . . . <strong>PRT03</strong></pre>
</li>
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<div class="important"><span class="importanttitle">Important:</span> A group profile is just a special type of user profile.
Many messages and displays refer to group profiles as users or user profiles.
The system only knows that you have created a group profile if you add members
to it or assign a group identification number (gid) to it.</div>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" width="100%" frame="hsides" border="1" rules="all"><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" id="d0e101">Possible Error</th>
<th valign="top" id="d0e103">Recovery</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e101 ">You pressed the Enter key before
typing all the values in the group profile.</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e103 ">Press F5 (Refresh) to add the
profile that you created to the Work with User Profiles display. Use Option <kbd class="userinput">2</kbd> (Change)
to correct the profile.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e101 ">You created a profile with the
wrong name.</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e103 ">You cannot change the name of
a profile. Use the Copy Option (<kbd class="userinput">3</kbd>) to create a new
profile with the correct name. Then delete (Option <kbd class="userinput">4</kbd>)
the profile with the wrong name.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e101 ">Some of the fields from the User
Group Description form do not appear on the display.</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e103 ">Make sure you are using intermediate
assistance level. The basic assistance level version of Create User Profile
is called the Add a User display. To change assistance levels, press F12 (Cancel)
to return to the Work with User Enrollment display. Use F21 to change assistance
levels. </td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" headers="d0e101 ">You accidentally erased some of
the default information from the Create User Profile display.</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d0e103 ">If you leave a field blank, the
system uses the default value when the user profile is created. If you want
to see the default values, press F5 (Refresh) to restore the entire display.
Type your information again.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<p><span class="uicontrol">Listing your results</span></p>
<p>List the names and descriptions of all profiles on the system by using
the Display Authorized Users (DSPAUTUSR) command. Type <samp class="codeph">DSPAUTUSR OUTPUT(*PRINT)</samp>.
Check to make sure that all group profiles have a password of *NONE.</p>
<div class="p">Complete the following before you set up individual users: <ul><li>Create a job description for each user group.</li>
<li>Optionally, create a library for each group.</li>
<li>Create a group profile for each user group.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="p">For more information about group profiles and IBM-supplied user profiles,
see the following topics in the <cite>iSeries™ Security Reference</cite>:<ul><li><a href="../books/sc415302.pdf" target="_blank">Planning
Group Profiles</a> in Chapter 7</li>
<li><a href="../books/sc415302.pdf" target="_blank">IBM-Supplied
User Profiles</a> in Chapter 9</li>
</ul>
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<div class="familylinks">
<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzamvsetusergrp.htm" title="This article describes the tasks for setting up user groups.">Set up user groups</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="rzamvgroupprof.htm" title="Group profiles define authority for a group of users.">Group profiles</a></div>
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