# dynamic allocation of printers under CICS

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/dynamic-allocation-of-printers-under-cics/96788>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes, Natural-Database-and-TP-Monitor-Interfaces-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [April 13, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/dynamic-allocation-of-printers-under-cics/96788 "2011-04-13T20:27:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![fer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@fer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/fer)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/dynamic-allocation-of-printers-under-cics/96788/1 "2011-04-13T20:27:08Z")

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We have already Natural under Com-plete (since 1984!!!), and now we are installing a Natural online environment under CICS. Now, we are dynamically allocating the VTAM printers under Com-Plete, but when we try to print under CICS (using NAF), we get a message “printer not defined in TCT”.  
Question: are there any way to print under CICS without the need  
of define every printer (we have about 8,000 in our installation), as we  
did under Com-plete? I mean, dynamic allocation or something like this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/dynamic-allocation-of-printers-under-cics/96788/2 "2021-04-02T15:00:05Z")

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