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

What is IQ?

At any rate, I would consider it an extremely bad practice to change your home directory to /. I strongly recommend having a separate home directory for each user, and unless you have a really good reason not to, I'd stick with the default naming convention of /home/usrprf

To assist with software that uses relative paths, just change your current directory by typing something like
CD '/' (or the longer form, CHGCURDIR CURDIR('/')) prior to running the software.

The purpose of a home directory is to give each user a place for his/her individual documents (including configuration files.) Changing your home directory to something like / or /ftp seems like a bad idea to me. I realize that your current directory (the one set with CD or CHGCURDIR) defaults to the home directory (if you don't change it.) But... that's just a default... it's sooooo easy to change it to something else. Definitely not worth screwing up software that expects the homedir to be "per user" just to avoid typing a simple CL command. (Or putting it in the users start up program... or a routing entry... etc,... so easy.)



On 7/26/2012 8:17 PM, John McKee wrote:

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.