## zowe › profiles › create › idms-profile

An IDMS profile is required to issue IDMS CLI commands. The IDMS profile contains your host and port information

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

#### Usage

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

#### Positional Arguments

- `profileName` (string)

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

#### IDMS Connection Options

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

  - Host name of the IDMS REST API service

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

  - Port for the IDMS REST API service

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

  - Mainframe user name, which can be the same as your TSO login ID

- `--password` | `--pass` | `--pw` (string)

  - Mainframe password, which can be the same as your TSO password

- `--datasource` | `-d` (string)

  - Identifies the IDMS system where the API request will be sent and is defined in the data sources definition file for the IDMS REST API

- `--base-path` | `--bp` (string)

  - The base path for your API Mediation Layer instance. Specify this option to prepend the base path to all resources when making REST requests. Only specify this option if you are using an API Mediation Layer

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

  - Reject self-signed certificates

    Default value: true

#### Options

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

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

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

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

#### Examples

- Create an IDMS profile called 'idms11' to connect to IDMS API services at host zos123 and port 1234, with base path api/v1/caidms and allow self-signed certificates:

  - `zowe profiles create idms-profile idms11 --host zos123 --port 1234 --user myuid --password mypass --base-path api/v1/caidms --reject-unauthorized false`

- Create an IDMS profile called 'idms99' to connect to IDMS API services at host zos123 and port 1234, specify a default data source SYS195 to be used by JDBC to identify a target system and allow self-signed certificates:

  - `zowe profiles create idms-profile idms99 --host zos123 --port 1234 --user myuid --password mypass --datasource SYS195 --reject-unauthorized false`