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Establishing a Profile

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If the profile data set is installed at your site, you can establish a profile with the values associated with the Code Debug CICS session.

Important

Code Debug CICS 8.1 introduced a utility to reformat the profile data set. The new format of the profile data set is necessary to use the “Save Trap Summary Entries” feature. Also, the new format of the profile data set improves usability of the LOAD PROFILE (0.4) screen by enabling Code Debug to maintain “ownership” of profile records. However, the prior format of the profile data set is still supported in case you choose not to use this new functionality.

By default, Code Debug CICS automatically loads a profile based upon the userID of the current user. This userID is obtained from the CICS sign-on transaction or from your external security manager.

The following profile names are reserved for system use:

  • DBUGGBL
  • DBUGUSER
  • XBUGUSER
  • SBUGUSER.

If your site does not require you to sign on to CICS, use the following transaction format to activate this profile at the start of a session, where profile is the name of the desired profile in the profile data set:

  • XPED P=profile
  • XPRT P=profile
  • XPSP P=profile

If you enter a transaction in this format and a profile does not exist for the specified name, Code Debug CICS automatically establishes a profile with the specified name. When you exit Code Debug CICS, the profile is automatically saved in the profile data set.

To directly access a function and simultaneously establish a profile, enter a transaction in the following format, where n.n is the screen number:

  • XPED n.n P=profile
  • XPRT n.n P=profile
  • XPSP n.n P=profile

To directly access a program and load a profile, enter a transaction in the following format:

  • XPED program-name P=profile
  • XPRT program-name P=profile
  • XPSP program-name P=profile

 

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