## zowe › profiles › create › cics-profile

A cics profile is required to issue commands in the cics command group that interact with CICS regions. The cics profile contains your host, port, user name, and password for the IBM CICS management client interface (CMCI) server of your choice.

Warning: This command has been deprecated.
Recommended replacement: The 'config init' command

#### Usage

zowe profiles create cics-profile <profileName> [options]

#### Positional Arguments

- `profileName` (string)

  - Specifies the name of the new cics profile. You can load this profile by using the name on commands that support the "--cics-profile" option.

#### Options

- `--host` | `-H` (string)

  - The CMCI server host name

- `--port` | `-P` (number)

  - The CMCI server port

    Default value: 1490

- `--user` | `-u` (string)

  - Your username to connect to CICS

- `--password` | `-p` (string)

  - Your password to connect to CICS

- `--region-name` (string)

  - The name of the CICS region name to interact with

- `--cics-plex` (string)

  - The name of the CICSPlex to interact with

- `--overwrite` | `--ow` (boolean)

  - Overwrite the cics profile when a profile of the same name exists.

- `--disable-defaults` | `--dd` (boolean)

  - Disable populating profile values of undefined properties with default values.

#### Cics Connection Options

- `--reject-unauthorized` | `--ru` (boolean)

  - Reject self-signed certificates.

    Default value: true

- `--protocol` | `-o` (string)

  - Specifies CMCI protocol (http or https).

    Default value: https
    Allowed values: http, https

#### Examples

- Create a cics profile named 'cics123' to connect to CICS at host zos123 and port 1490:

  - `zowe profiles create cics-profile cics123 --host zos123 --port 1490 --user ibmuser --password myp4ss`