Re: Programatically check for an IBM supplied profile

Al,

I concur with your comments regarding user objects starting
with "Q", that was the reason I inserted the "smiley". In
the shop I'm working right now someone created several
libraries beginning with "Q". It was about six months
before the discovered they weren't in the *ALLUSR backup...

BTW, like your method a lot better, will add it to the bag
of tricks.

Francis,

You are right, I forgot about QLPINSTALL. Al Barsa's method
(created on system '00000000') seems simpler, though.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez

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message: 6
date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:49:53 -0800
from: Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Programatically check for an IBM supplied
profile


With all due respect, anyone can create a user profile
starting with the
letter "Q". Had hindsight been 20/20, maybe IBM would
have not allowed us
to create user objects starting with the letter "Q".

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads

Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

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Mike,

I would say that any user profile beginning with 'Q' is a
system profile.

If you have any other kind of profile beginning with Q
(the
"wrong" way :-) ) you could do a DSPOBJD to all the
*USRPRF
objects in QSYS to an *OUTFILE and check the ODCRTU field
(Created by...). For IBM created objects it should say
'*IBM'.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Luis Rodriguez


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message: 7
date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:52:09 -0500
from: "Crump, Mike" <M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Programatically check for an IBM supplied
profile

I'm fuzzy on this but I could have sworn there was a

way

to
programmatically check for profiles that were IBM
supplied. I want to
do some mass changes/updates but I want to specifically
bypass IBM
supplied profiles. I've looked through all my programs
and notes and
can't find anything on the subject.



Am I not remembering correctly or does anyone have any
idea on how to do
a check like this in CL?



Michael Crump

Luis Rodriguez

IBM Certified Systems Expert
eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions


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