Create a group profile

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.

After you create a job description, you can create the group profile using the information from Part 2 of the User Group Description form.

Use the Work with User Profiles command. Type WRKUSRPRF *ALL. Initially, the display lists the profiles supplied by IBM^®.
Note: If you see the Work with User Enrollment display, press F21 to change to intermediate assistance level.

To create a new profile, type 1 in the Opt (option) column and profile name in the User Profile column. Press the Enter key.

           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 
1    DPTSM 
     QDOC     Document User Profile 
     QSECOFR  Security Officer User Profile

Type information from your User Group Description form into the appropriate fields.
Use the Tab key to skip over any fields where you want to use the default value.
Press F10 (Additional parameters).

Page down.

              Create User Profile (CRTUSRPRF) 

Type choices, press Enter. 

User profile  . . . . . . . . > DPTSM 
User password . . . . . . . . . *none 
Set password to expired . . . . *NO 
Status  . . . . . . . . . . . . *ENABLED 
User class  . . . . . . . . . . *USER 
Assistance level  . . . . . . . *SYSVAL 
Current library . . . . . . . . *CRTDFT 
Initial program to call . . . . cpsetup 
Library   . . . . . . . . . . . cppgmlib 
Initial menu  . . . . . . . . . cpmain 
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . cppgmlib 
Limit capabilities  . . . . . . *yes 
Text ’description’. . . . . . . Sales and Marketing

Enter the remaining fields from your User Group Description form on the additional pages of the display and press the Enter key.

              Create User Profile 

              Additional Parameters 

Special authority . . . . . . . *USRCLS 
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Job description . . . . . . . . DPTSM 
  Library . . . . . . . . . . . QGPL

Check messages.

              Create User Profile

Group authority . . . . . . . . *NONE
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Print device  . . . . . . . . . PRT03

Important: 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.

Possible Error	Recovery
You pressed the Enter key before typing all the values in the group profile.	Press F5 (Refresh) to add the profile that you created to the Work with User Profiles display. Use Option `2` (Change) to correct the profile.
You created a profile with the wrong name.	You cannot change the name of a profile. Use the Copy Option (`3`) to create a new profile with the correct name. Then delete (Option `4`) the profile with the wrong name.
Some of the fields from the User Group Description form do not appear on the display.	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.
You accidentally erased some of the default information from the Create User Profile display.	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.

Listing your results

List the names and descriptions of all profiles on the system by using the Display Authorized Users (DSPAUTUSR) command. Type DSPAUTUSR OUTPUT(*PRINT). Check to make sure that all group profiles have a password of *NONE.

Complete the following before you set up individual users:

Create a job description for each user group.
Optionally, create a library for each group.
Create a group profile for each user group.

For more information about group profiles and IBM-supplied user profiles, see the following topics in the iSeries™ Security Reference:

Planning Group Profiles in Chapter 7
IBM-Supplied User Profiles in Chapter 9