First, to understand how the profile schemes feature works, you must have a good understanding of dialog configuration profiles. Refer to BlueZone dialog configuration profiles before proceeding.

The profile schemes feature is used primarily by BlueZone administrator's who want to have complete control over certain aspects of the BlueZone configuration while allowing their end users to be able to control all other aspects of the configuration.

The following example shows how to push out BlueZone configuration changes without affecting your end user's personalized configuration settings.

If you must change the IP Address (or DNS Name) of your IBM 3270 Mainframe host:

If you are not using the profile schemes feature, you must modify your master BlueZone configuration file (.zmd), with the new IP Address or DNS name. Then, push the modified configuration file to all your end user machines. Modifying the master BlueZone configuration file accomplishes this, but all your end user's personalized customizations, like keyboard map changes and font/color changes, are lost.

When using the profile schemes feature, your master BlueZone configuration file already have the profile schemes dialog configured to import a TN3270E Profile (.tn3). This profile contains all the BlueZone Mainframe Display TN3270E configuration settings like, host IP Address (DNS Name) and TCP Port. Instead of modifying your master BlueZone configuration file (.zmd), you modify your TN3270E Profile (.tn3), with the new IP Address or DNS Name. Then, push the modified TN3270E Profile (.tn3) to your end users machines.

By modifying and updating only the TN3270E Profile (.tn3), you do not disturb any of your end user's personalized customizations.

As you can see in the following screen shot, there are up to eight different aspects of a BlueZone configuration that can be controlled (overridden) by using the profile schemes feature in conjunction with dialog configuration profiles.