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Collecting and comparing CICS definitions

When collecting CICSĀ® definitions, CICS Configuration Manager takes the entire set of resource definitions from a CSD file. By contrast with the candidate comparison, the CICS definition comparison is not affected by how the resource definitions are installed by CICS after a cold start. Therefore, the following rules and attributes are ignored:

For a description of the sections in the CICS definitions compare report, see Table 1.

The report compares CICS resource definitions of the same name, type, and group to identify those definitions that are missing or mismatched. A mismatch occurs when the attribute value on one definition differs from the attribute value on its counterpart. The following parameters help you customize the report:

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