Creating a user profile

To create a user profile on your IBM i system perform the following steps in an IBM i command-line window.

Procedure

Type the command CRTUSRPRF and press F4 for a prompt.

Complete the necessary parameters, ensuring that USRCLS is set to *SECOFR and SPCAUT is set to *USRCLS for this profile. Press Enter to create the user profile.

Create the IBM i user profile with the following localized settings:

Localized settings for System i user profiles
Language	CCSID	LangID	CountryID
English	37	ENU	US
French	297	FRA	FR
German	273	DEU	DE
Italian	280	ITA	IT
Spanish	284	ESP	ES
Brazilian Portuguese	37	PTB	BR
Japanese	5035	JPN	JP
Korean	933	KOR	KR
Traditional Chinese	937	CHT	TW
Simplified Chinese	935	CHS	CN
Romanian	870	ROM	RO
Russian	1025	RUS	RU
Polish	870	PLK	PL

Use the DSPUSRPRF command to determine the name of your home directory, HOMEDIR. Your HOMEDIR is the file path home/user_profile where user_profile is your user profile on the system. Ensure that the HOMEDIR directory exists on your IBM i system. If the HOMEDIR directory does not exist, create it using the command MKDIR.
The HOMEDIR must contain a file named SystemDefault.properties, with a coded character set ID of 819 and containing ASCII data. This file must specify the file.encoding property that matches your IBM i user profile. The file.encoding property is case-sensitive, must be specified on one line, and contains no spaces. The file.encoding property can be one of the following values:
- Simplified Chinese: file.encoding=Cp1381
- Korean: file.encoding=KSC5601
- Traditional Chinese: file.encoding=Cp950
- Japanese: file.encoding=SJIS
- All other languages: file.encoding=ISO8859_1
Create the SystemDefault.properties file.
1. On a PC, using a text editor, create a file named SYSDFT.FILE
2. In this file, enter the appropriate file.encoding line for your language. For example: file.encoding=ISO8859_1
3. Save this file and copy it to your IBM i system in the /QIBM directory.
4. From an IBM i command line, type:
```
COPY OBJ('/QIBM/SYSDFT.FILE')
     TOOBJ('/home_directory/SystemDefault.properties')
     TOCCSID(819) 
```
  where home_directory is the HOMEDIR.
5. Ensure that the newly created file contains the correct ASCII data.