Changing Your User Profile with the PROFILE Command

Your user profile defines how you want the system to respond to information sent to or from your terminal. When you began to use TSO/E, an authorized system programmer created your user ID and your user profile. The typical user profile is defined by default values of the PROFILE command's operands.

You can use the PROFILE command to display or change your user profile.

Example

To display your user profile, enter the PROFILE command after the READY mode message:

PROFILE

You then see something that might look like the following:

CHAR(0) LINE(0) PROMPT INTERCOM NOPAUSE NOMSGID NOMODE
NOWTPMSG NORECOVER PREFIX(USERID) PLANGUAGE(JPN) SLANGUAGE(ENU)
DEFAULT LINE/CHARACTER DELETE CHARACTERS IN EFFECT FOR THIS
TERMINAL

To change your user profile, enter the PROFILE command and the operands you want to change:

PROFILE changed operands

The changes made while processing in the foreground usually remain in effect from one session to another. If the changes you requested do not remain in effect, your installation might have a LOGON pre-prompt exit that prevents the system from saving changes to your user profile. Changes made while processing in the background are not saved after the terminal session.

Using the PROFILE command, you can specify:

On terminals without delete keys, the characters that delete a single character or the remainder of a line (CHAR operand, LIST operand)
Whether you want the system to prompt you for information (PROMPT/NOPROMPT operand)
Whether you want to receive messages from other users (INTERCOM/NOINTERCOM operand)
Whether you want to be able to obtain information about messages issued to your terminal while you execute a CLIST (PAUSE/NOPAUSE operand)
Whether you want to see the message numbers of messages displayed at your terminal (MSGID/NOMSGID operand)
Whether you want to receive mode messages at your terminal (MODE/NOMODE operand)
Whether you want to see at your terminal messages issued to you by a program (write-to-programmer messages) (WTPMSG/NOWTPMSG operand)
Whether you want the EDIT recovery function in effect (RECOVER/NORECOVER operand)
A user ID or character string to be used as the first qualifier of all non-fully-qualified data set names (PREFIX operand).
Primary and secondary languages (PLANGUAGE and SLANGUAGE operands) to be used in displaying translated messages, help information, and the TRANSMIT full-screen panel.

In the following examples, you will see either no operands or one operand entered with each example of the PROFILE command. However, you can enter any number of non-conflicting operands on a PROFILE command.

If you enter an incorrect character on the PROFILE command, an error message informs you which character is incorrect and the user profile is not changed.