Re: Does .profile get used by a putty session also? -- MIDRANGE-L

We use IQ (or, at least will until November). It isn't the current
version, but current when the OS was upgraded to v5r4. That version
of IQ does not allow output to an IFS file with an absolute path
(leading '/' character). I can't help but wonder if that has been
addressed over the years. So, one user who works with IQ changed his
home directory to '/' so queries worked with the IFS better.

John McKee

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Rob,

I find it strange that your home directory is /FTP. A Home directory is
intended to be your own little "work space", i.e. an IFS directory
that's unique to your user profile. Most shops choose to use
/home/your-userid for that.

That's not related to your question -- I just wanted to pass it along as
an observation. If you put a .profile (or .ssh, etc) in the /ftp
directory, and /ftp is not unique to your user profile, then it'll
affect other users...

Anyway, the .profile file is read by the Unix shell that's invoked.
Some shells use .profile, and some do not -- but I believe all of the
ones that IBM includes with the OS use it, so unless you've installed a
different shell, the .profile file should be read when the shell is
invoked. It should matter whether you use Putty vs. any other terminal
program.

You also ask where to find the file. Files beginning with a dot are
"hidden" files in Unix, so typically they won't show up in a directory
listing. As others have suggested, you can see it in WRKLNK if you use
DSPOPT(*ALL). If you use the 'ls' command in QShell or PASE to list
files, you can add the -a switch to see the hidden files.

The "echo" command you posted will create the .profile file if it
doesn't exist.

Another way to set the PATH (instead of .profile) is to set the PATH
environment variable. I personally have a PATH that's set system-wide
for all of my users via ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*SYS). Then, I override that
setting for myself by having an ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*JOB) in the INLPGM of
my user profile. (I tend to do extra stuff that normal users do not.)
Please be aware that Unix software is typically case-sensitive, so
'PATH' is not the same as 'path' or 'Path'.

You can use .profile instead of the LEVEL(*JOB), however. If you set it
in both places, the .profile should take precedence.

-SK

On 7/26/2012 1:43 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I was reading

http://www.iprodeveloper.com/article/application-development/using-gnupg-for-pgp-on-i-64370

Typing <sic: PATH> every time I start PASE is very cumbersome.
Fortunately, you don't have to type it every time! Instead, you can put
the command into a special file named .profile, and the command will
automatically be run every time you start a PASE shell. For example, I can
type the following within PASE.

echo
"PATH=$PATH:/QOpensys/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Zend/Core/bin:/usr/local/mysql/mysql/bin"

$HOME/.profile

My question is this: Will that .profile also be used by a putty session?

Another question is where do I find that .profile file?
I did DSPUSRPRF ROB
Home directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : /FTP
WRKLNK '/FTP/*'
There's nothing that which begins with a period.

Rob Berendt

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