The DFHCSDUP SERVICE command

Description

You might occasionally (between CICS® releases) have to apply a service routine to carry out preventive or corrective maintenance to your CSD file.

You can use the SERVICE command to create a new copy of the CSD file, from the existing CSD file. All the definitions are preserved, with the corrections (if any) applied.

Options

FRomcsd(ddname)

specifies the ddname of the current CSD file, which for the purposes of the command is treated as the secondary CSD file.

LEvel(nnn)

Associated with your CSD file is a current service level, initially set to 000 when the file was initialized. Applying the service routine causes the service level to be incremented in steps of one, from a “current level” to a “target level”.

This operand specifies the target service level to which the CSD file is to be upgraded, and must be 1 higher than the current level of FROMCSD. Specify it as a 3-character integer; for example, LEVEL(001).