When you invoke SDA, by using the DCL commands ANALYZE/SYSTEM or ANALYZE/CRASH_DUMP, SDA first executes commands from an initialization file if one exists, before prompting the user for commands. The initialization file is commonly used to read in symbol tables and define keys for SDA commands. First, SDA searches for an initialization file using the logical name SDA$INIT. If this file is not found, then SDA searches for the file SYS$LOGIN:SDA.INIT. If no initialization file is found, or after the initialization file SDA commands have been executed, SDA starts accepting interactive user commands from the "SDA>" prompt.