Comments on: User profile exemption

By: chalenger

chalenger — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:05:35 +0000

any disabled user can sign on in case we started in Manual Mode

By: inewbie

inewbie — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:22:33 +0000

Thank you Tom, WoodEngineer and Bvining for the overwhelming responses. I’ll check on this.

@Bvining, I’ll consult this with my heads, since we are bound by procurement stuff within our country.

By: bvining

bvining — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:06:45 +0000

This might be overkill, but I developed an application called Profile Manager which supports the automatic re-enablement of user profiles (with a whole bunch of nice features that you may not care about). The product is priced assuming rather large systems, but if you are interested and have a small system feel free to contact me offline. Bruce Vining

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:54:28 +0000

Setting a ‘watch’ monitor is an excellent way to set up a monitor (assuming the system is reasonably current). Bruce Vining’s articles are about as authoritative as such things get.

Tom

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:58:22 +0000

Here is the link to Bruce Vining’s article on the topic.

http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/apis/the-api-corner-re-enable-disabled-user-profiles.html

You really need some programming skills to make heads and tails of this. It is not like installing MS Excel on your PC.

By: inewbie

inewbie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:20:14 +0000

Thank you Tom.

As of now I don’t have any programming skills on iSeries, how is the program executed? Is it always polling to check whether the profile is disabled or polling for all profiles? If it is not too much, maybe somebody could help me write the program.

Thank you in advance.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:08:59 +0000

1. I would like to inquire if there is a way to exempt a user profile from a disabling, my system QMAXSIGN is 3.

QSECOFR is the only such profile. However, you can have programming that monitors for the disabling event. Your program can then decide to reenable the profile, based on whatever rules you create. You can also create programming that reenables any profile on request.

2. Can I recreate a profile like QSECOFR, that can be logged in even disabled on the Controller / Main Display.

No.

3. Is there a way that a single user profile have more than one group profile assigned?

Yes. A profile may belong to a primary group and up to 15 supplemental groups. Use the SUPGRPPRF() parameter to add supplemental groups.

Tom