This Natural profile parameter can be used to activate a dynamic parameter profile.
When you invoke Natural with dynamic profile parameters, instead of having to specify a whole string of individual parameters each time you invoke Natural, you can specify the string of parameters once, store this string under a profile name and then invoke Natural with only one dynamic parameter as follows:
| PROFILE=profile-name |
The parameters defined under this profile are passed to Natural as
dynamic profile parameters.You create and maintain these profiles with the
utility SYSPARM (described in the
Utilities documentation).
| Possible settings | 1-8 characters |
Profile-name. Or special options, see below. |
|---|---|---|
| Default setting | ||
| Dynamic specification | yes | |
| Specification within session | no |
In addition, the PROFILE parameter provides the
following special options:
PROFILE=AUTO |
Natural takes the current TP user ID (as contained in the system
variable *INIT-USER)
as profile name, which means that the profile defined under the name
corresponding to that ID is used.
If no such profile is found, a profile named |
PROFILE=TERMINAL |
Natural takes the current terminal ID (as contained in the system
variable *INIT-ID)
as profile name, which means that the profile defined under the name
corresponding to that ID is used.
If no such profile is found, a profile named |
PROFILE=PROGRAM |
Natural takes the name of the program currently executing as
Natural (as contained in the system variable
*INIT-PROGRAM)
as profile name, which means that the profile defined under this name is used.
If no such profile is found, a profile named |
By default, the profile is read from the current FNAT system
file.
To read it from a different system file, you can specify the desired database ID, file number, password and cipher code after the profile-name (or after one of the above special options) as follows:
| PROFILE=(profile-name,dbid,fnr,password,cipher-code) |
To ensure that all profile parameters are read from the same system file
(other than FNAT), specify the following in the parameter
module:
PROFILE=(,dbid,fnr)
|
If the PROFILE parameter is specified within a
parameter module, it is evaluated after the other parameters in the
parameter module, but before any dynamically specified profile
parameters are evaluated; this means that parameters specified within the
profile can be overridden by individually specified dynamic parameters.
To restrict the use of a profile, you can use the profile parameter
USER.
Unlike other parameters, a PROFILE parameter
specification cannot be overwritten by another PROFILE.
So you can have multiple parameter profiles which are evaluated all in a
sequence.
The PROFILE parameter cannot be used with
ADARUN MODE=SINGLE.
