Various possibilities: (1)The user is attempting to violate installation standards and a default installation initial edit macro is forcing the edit profile values back
(2)The user is attempting to modify a locked edit profile, which means any changes he makes are temporary -- locking some default edit profiles is another way installations can encourage what they believe to be best practices for certain dataset types (3) The user may be changing the final qualifier of the dataset name, not realizing that the edit profile is tied to the final qualifier of the dataset name, not to the dataset itself. (4) The user may be editing datasets with so many different final dataset name qualifiers that he is exceeding the maximum number of retained edit profiles as defined by the installation -- which means his version of the least recently used edit profile will be dropped and the next time he edits a dataset corresponding to that edit profile a default profile will be used. I'm sure there are other possibilities. Joel C. Ewing On 7/5/19 1:26 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM wrote: > If it is e.g. an ISPF Edit Initial Macro, changed by someone, the user will > be the one that modifies the Profile. This will be difficult to trap. > What has changed in their profile? > > Kees. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Anthony Thompson >> Sent: 05 July, 2019 4:33 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Who is changing a user's ISPF profile >> >> You probably want SMF record type 15, to tell you who has opened a dataset >> for output, and when. >> >> Are you a RACF shop? You can define a RACF profile for the user's ISPF >> profile dataset to ensure that only they have more than READ access, and >> use NOTIFY(userid) to get a TSO message whenever some other user/whatever >> fails the RACF check. ACF2 has similar facilities, and I've never met TSS. >> >> Ant. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of Gadi Ben-Avi >> Sent: Friday, 5 July 2019 12:21 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Who is changing a user's ISPF profile >> >> Hi, >> >> A user is complaining that 'someone' is changing their ISPF profile and >> setting that they set up are changing. >> >> Can I track this in SMF and see who, if anyone is doing this? >> >> I saw the SMF 42 records are created when members in a PDS or PDS/E are >> changed. >> >> Will they pick up ISPF profile changes? >> >> >> >> We are running z/OS v2.2. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> Gadi >> >> >> >> -- Joel C. Ewing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
