Save security information

This topic presents an overview of how you save and restore security information.

When you plan the backup and recovery of your system, you need to consider the security of your information as well as the information itself. See the Information Center topic, Backup, Recovery, and Availability to help you design a complete backup and recovery plan. The following topics describe how you back up and restore the security information that you create when you set up security:

• Save system values
  This article describes the task, save system values, explains why it is important, and provides step-by-step instructions.
• Save group and user profiles
  Group and user profiles are stored in the QSYS library. You save them when you use the Save System (SAVSYS) command or select the menu option to save the entire system.
• Save job descriptions
  When you create a job description, you specify a library where it should reside. IBM^® recommends creating job descriptions into the QGPL library.
• Save resource security information
  Resource security, which defines how users can work with objects, consists of different types of information that is stored in several different places:
• Save the default owner profile (QDFTOWN)
  If you restore an object and the owner profile is not on the system, the system transfers ownership of the object to a default profile that is called QDFTOWN.