Customize/Delete Activation Profiles

Use this task to view, change, create, or delete activation profiles for the central processor complex (CPC) and their images.

There are four types of activation profiles:

  • Reset profile used to activate a CPC and its images
  • Load profile used to activate image and load a control program or operating system.
  • Image profile used to activate an image of a CPC
  • Group profile used to specify the capacity of a group of logical partitions.
Save
To save the current information and settings as an activation profile for the CPC, click Save.
Copy Profile
To put the current profile information and settings in a temporary storage area to make it available to other profiles and objects on the console, click Copy Profile.
Paste Profile
To retrieve the information and settings currently in the temporary storage area for the current profile type, click Paste Profile.
Assign Profile
To assign the current profile to the object, to use it to activate the object whenever activation is started from the console, click Assign Profile.
Cancel
To close the profile without making changes, click Cancel.
Help
To display help for the current window, click Help.

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