Server Profiles

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A server or global profile, edasprof.prf, is created during installation. You can customize this profile which is applied to all users. Optionally, you can create separate profiles to customize the server environment for a role, a group of users or an individual user. You can also create service profiles, which specify settings for the server environment. For information, see Profile Settings. Profiles are executed in the following sequence: server, service, role, group, and user.

A profile can include almost any command that a client application can send to the server, however, profiles are used most frequently for application set up commands, such as SETs, search path set up, and DBMS connection information, which may vary by adapter.

Two key aspects of profile customization are level and associated search order. The server processes all profiles found in the search order. If it finds duplicate settings or commands, the last setting or command processed will be active for the connection.

When you create a profile, take into account that the more processing performed by the profile, the more time it takes for an application to connect to the server. An exception is pooled deployment, where only one profile is processed when the server agent initially starts or is refreshed.


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Profile Level

How to:

The server supports various levels of profiles to provide flexibility for designing and running production applications. The order in which the following profiles are listed correlates with the search order in which they are processed by the server when multiple profiles exist.



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Procedure: How to Create a User Profile

You can create a user profile at any time as by:

  1. From the menu bar, select Workspace.
  2. Expand the Configuration Files folder in the navigation pane.
  3. Right-click the User/Group Profiles folder, and select New Profile.

    The Edit New Profile page opens.

  4. Enter the profile parameters and click the Save As button.

    The Create new user profile page opens.

  5. Enter a profile name and click Save.

    You can also use any standard system editor. If you use an editor, create the user profile in the correct location.

    Characteristic

    Description

    Name

    user_id.prf

    Location

    UNIX: base_directory_name/ibi/profiles
    Windows: base_directory_name\ibi\profiles
    IBM i: IFS base_directory_name/ibi/profiles directory
    OpenVMS: base_directory_name [.IBI.PROFILES] directory

    Override

    Set the edaserve.cfg keyword edaprfu to point to an alternate location of user_id.prf.

    Sequence in search order

    Fourth

    Scope

    Applies to a specific user.


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