## zowe › profiles › create › ca7-profile

A CA7 profile is required to issue commands in the CA7 command group. The CA7 profile contains your host and port for the CA7 instance of your choice.

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

#### Usage

zowe profiles create ca7-profile <profileName> [options]

#### Positional Arguments

- `profileName` (string)

  - Specifies the name of the new ca7 profile. You can load this profile by using the name on commands that support the "--ca7-profile" option.

#### CA7 Connection Options

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

  - Host name of the CA7 API service that is running on the mainframe system.

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

  - Port for the CA7 API service that is running on the mainframe system.

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

  - User name for authenticating connections to the CA7 API service that is running on the mainframe system.

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

  - Password for authenticating connections to the CA7 API service that is running on the mainframe system.

- `--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. Do not specify this option if you are not using an API mediation layer.

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

  - Specifies protocol to use for CA7 connection (http or https).

    Allowed values: http, https

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

  - Reject self-signed certificates.

    Default value: true

#### Options

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

  - Overwrite the ca7 profile when a profile of the same name exists.

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

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