The PROFILE statement can be used to specify the characteristics, facilities, and applications available to a number of users or terminals.
It can also be used to override certain system options for those users and terminals using the profile. Individual USER or TERMINAL statements can then be used to specify only those parameters that are to be different to, or additional to, those on the PROFILE. This method of coding reduces the administrative load and reduces storage usage.
Note: A user can be associated with multiple profiles. See also Rules for profile selection.
The way in which the various session names, PF keys, application names and descriptions appear at the terminal depends upon the definition of the panel which is assigned to the PROFILE. This layout, defined by the PANEL statement, and described in the Panels, Scripts and Variables manual, is known as the Menu Screen, and each PROFILE is only allowed to have one Menu screen layout assigned to it. This menu can be overridden on the USER/TERMINAL statements, if required.