RE: User profile question

["Harvell, Joel" <jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you set a user profile to *disabled it will cause programs that use
that user profile to fail.  

Not sure of the wisdom of setting any of the IBM Supplied user Profiles
to password = *none.  I'm hoping that you haven't set any of the User
Profiles that have *secadm access set to *none.  Have your SOX auditors
called you to the carpet for that. 

If you are using any of the IBM Supplied user profiles to run scheduled
jobs, I would recommend setting up clones of those user profiles so that
you can disable your IBM supplied User Profiles, if your SOX Auditors
recommend that.
 
Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+jbharvell=foodlion.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+jbharvell=foodlion.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Greg Wenzloff
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:56 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: User profile question

Our SOX auditors are hounding me about User Profiles.    I set most of
the IBM supplied profiles to Password = *none.   I did not change the
Status to *Disabled because I don't know about all of the effects of
doing that.

The help window says:
                       Status - Help                         
                                                             
 Specifies whether the user profile is valid for sign on or  
 for getting a profile handle.                               
                                                             
 The possible values are:                                    
  o  *ENABLED: The user profile is valid.                    
  o  *DISABLED: The user profile is not valid.  

What does "getting a profile handle" mean?    Will a disabled profile
prevent programs from running?

Greg