Re: RSTUSRPRF and CPC3714

As I recall that message, and as inferred from presented context, would imply the restore request has successfully restored the private authorities of the user profile, but not some of the attributes of the profile itself; e.g. perhaps not the SPCAUT(), GRPPRF(), SUPGRPPRF() nor PASSWORD(), and presumably not mentioned, but also not the Interactive Profile Entry.

There is a /newer/ parameter SECDTA(*PWDGRP) that can increase the amount of information restored for a request other than what comes with the Disaster Recovery invocation using USRPRF(*ALL). This may be all that is required for the given case.
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200807/msg00100.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sc415302.pdf
Chapter 8: Backup & Recovery of security information
Page 223: Restoring User Profiles

To get a full restore of the profiles, minus effectively temporary or at least system-specific [e.g. registration & session] details, may require mimicking a DR scenario whereby all user profiles are restored where none exist [excepting the system user profiles that were created as part of the install]. It is generally undesirable to try to effect a DLTUSRPRF and RSTUSRPRF to /refresh/ a user profile on another system, not only due to the amount of work it would entail, but those system-specific and temporary details would be lost on the target system.

There is an API QSYRUPWD to retrieve the encrypted password, and a corresponding API QSYSUPWD to set the encrypted password for a named user profile, if that is desirable; e.g. as the only change to be transmitted to the target system, versus the private authorities and other attributes that can be restored.

Regards, Chuck

Charles Wilt wrote:

What does the CPC3714 message really mean? Is the password from the saved user profile not restored if the profile already exists on the box you are restoring to?

I suppose that makes sense, but would mean that I'd need to delete
the existing profile in order to get a refreshed version of user
profiles onto a QA box.