Duplicating terminal definitions

Having a separate terminal definition for each system involved, each on a CSD file that is accessible to that system. One is created as a local definition and one or more are created as remote definitions. This is referred to as duplicating terminal definitions, because there is more than one resource definition for the same terminal (the definitions are not necessarily exact duplicates of each other).

To duplicate terminal definitions:
  1. Create a local definition for the terminal, in the CSD file of the terminal-owning system, or on a shared CSD file.
  2. Create a remote definition for the terminal, in the CSD file of the application-owning system, or in a shared CSD file. If you have more than one application-owning system, you may need more than one remote definition, but if the systems are sharing a CSD file, you may be able to use the same remote definition for them all.
  3. Install the local definition in the terminal-owning system. This definition can be autoinstalled.
  4. Install the remote definition in the application-owning system(s).
Note: If your systems share a CSD file, make sure the definitions are in different groups, because: