For AIX systems, the Environment Variable Update will modify existing startup scripts as described in the following table. It will modify the existing scripts for any of these shells regardless of which shell the installer is executed from. The runtime value for $HOME in the following table is obtained from the user.home system property reported by the JVM.

UNIX
Level Bourne & Korn CShell
& TCShell
Bash Shell Special User
Privileges Required
Logout
Required
Reboot
Required
"User" $HOME/.profile $HOME/.login $HOME/.bash_profile
or
$HOME/.bash_login
or
$HOME/.profile
None Yes
Must Add
Logout Panel
No
"System" /etc/profile /etc/.login /etc/profile Yes - root