Session options

Session options may be obtained from several sources: these are the USER or TERMINAL statement, and the PROFILE, APPL and SYSTEM statements. IBM Session Manager supplies default options, and default options can also be defined on the PROFILE, USER, TERMINAL and SYSTEM statements.

A user may find that some of the sessions are obtained from a USER statement and some from a PROFILE statement. Alternatively, some sessions may be obtained from a TERMINAL statement and some from a PROFILE statement. All session definitions on a TERMINAL statement are ignored when there is an applicable USER statement. If there is no USER or TERMINAL statement, but sign-on is allowed under control of the user exit, and the user exit does not specify a profile, the default profile is used.

A single session definition, however, is obtained solely from one source. Session options are only merged when a set of default options is specified.

IBM Session Manager first locates the session definition by searching these statements:

If the PROFILE statement defines a session for which there is a matching session on the USER or TERMINAL statement, the profile session definition is ignored.

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