# Equivalent of CICS CSD file in Com-plete?

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757>\
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**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Related-Products, Com-plete\
**Created:** [May 20, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757 "2008-05-20T12:28:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ofer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a4c791/32.png) [@Ofer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ofer)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757/1 "2008-05-20T12:28:15Z")

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Hi all -

When working in CICS, we have all resource definitions saved in a CSD file (CICS System Definition), which is a regular VSAM file that can be listed, analyzed, printed etc.

Is there any equivalent file(s) in Com-plete?

Thanks -

O.

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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:** [May 20, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757/2 "2008-05-20T13:01:20Z")

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COM-PLETE definitions are kept in the three “COMSYS” datasets:

- DD/DLBL COMSYS1 - base definitions  
DD/DLBL COMSYS3 - user profiles  
DD/DLBL COMSYS4 - program / file catalog

But what sense would it make to print these with VSAM utilities ?

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**Author:** ![Ofer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a4c791/32.png) [@Ofer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ofer)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757/3 "2008-05-20T13:12:17Z")

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When we run projects for customers with CICS, we use the CSD file to analyze the CICS structure (resource-wise). We simply look for the equivalent input when dealing with Com-plete.

Thanks.

O.

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**Author:** ![Steffen\_Kuhnert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Steffen\_Kuhnert](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steffen_Kuhnert)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757/4 "2008-05-21T16:42:31Z")

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Hi Ofer,

I still don’t understand. Can you give us an example, maybe, of what you’re doing in CICS? CICS requires you to define much more things than Complete does, so it might turn out you don’t need to do anything at all in Complete.

Steffen

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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, 2:49pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/equivalent-of-cics-csd-file-in-com-plete/76757/5 "2021-04-02T14:49:28Z")

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