Your recollection is correct.  Specifically, the profile is named ZDEFAULT.


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Skip Robinson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I hate to give a sloppy response, but 'at one time' an installation could
> create a default ISPF profile called in whenever a user edited a data set
> that did not already have a matching LLQ in the personal profile. This
> default profile would be stored <somewhere> in the ISPTLIB concatenation
> with <some name> and used initially. Default options like RECOVERY and
> AUTOSAVE would be honored. That may all be handled by the ISPF setup
> process now, but the point is that the installation can give the user an
> initial profile, which the user can change if desired.
>
> Sorry for the fuzz.
>
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> From:   "Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM" <[email protected]>
> To:     [email protected],
> Date:   06/27/2014 06:52 AM
> Subject:        Re: PDSE member profile
> Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> Yes!. In our group, we all have activated an 'initial macro' that sets for
> certain datasets some of the attributes we require, like STATS, AUTOSAVE
> OFF PROMPT (to avoid PF3's unintentionally saving modifications).
>
> About what you call IBM chaos: if you look at the history of these
> features, it is explainable how things grew this way.
> First there was no (I)SPF, but there were member statistics as save by the
> linkage editor etc.
> Then came (I)SPF and they at some point in time found it useful to save
> statistics, for ISPF use only.
> Then they developed their own enq's (SPFEDIT) for editing several members
> in a PDS while holding the PDS with DISP=SHR.
> Then we got problems with batch updating PDS's that were in use constantly
> by ISPF users, which was solved by batch updating the PDS with DISP=SHR,
> which corrupted a PDS once in every 1000 to 1000000 times.
> Then PDSMAN intercepted disp=shr batch by adding the SPFEDIT enq and the
> linkage editor was doing likewise.
> Now we have come to the chaos you describe and yes, someone with a
> supervising view could have stopped this trend and decided to do this at
> platform level, but this did not happen.
> It is like a couple of guys developing a communication protocol for their
> computer connections that suited their needs, but now it is used as
> 'internet' and the total world economy depends on it, it should have been
> developed differently.
>
> Kees.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 15:37
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: PDSE member profile
>
> On 2014-06-27, at 07:21, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM wrote:
>
> > I doubt it, the profiles are an internal ISPF thing and their
> definitions saved in the user's personal profile dataset. Which/whose
> settings should FTP use?
> >
> Are you saying that if multiple users have write access to a PDS for
> purposes of team development (ISPF supports this operation (I used to
> believe well)), they may follow inconsistent conventions with respect to
> NUMBER, STATS, RECOVERY, ...?
>
> Ouch!
>
> In case of team development, such a profile should belong to the library,
> not to the individual developer(s).
>
> Hmmm...  Suppose one developer's edit session crashes, but RECOVERY is on.
>  Can editing that member be resumed and recovered by another team member?
>
> -- gil
>
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