Enable & Disable Many User Profiles at Once

User Profiles, we all have them, sometimes we have too many! Do you ever have a need to do a mass update of user profiles? The use case for this video was someone that needed to do some sensitive testing and did not want ANYONE to sign in during the test. Easy way to make that happen ? Disable ALL user profiles on the system for a period, and then revert all those changed back. The SQL provided will show you how to build your list of profiles, run the action and then make sure you clean up after. Sure we are showing Disable and Enable, but think of other user cases, you want to force all profiles to reset their password based on new security password rules, this SQL can easily be adopted for that as well.

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i

Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development. He has a passion for modernization on IBM i and how we can continue to move IBM i into the world of 'Normal' . In his spare time he is a certified Soccer referee and enjoys refereeing games with his youngest son.

Scott Forstie

Db2 for i Business Architect

Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.