Communications

I'm an AS400 RPG programmer not a AS400 communications person but have been 
given this task.  We have customers that we need to do communications with. 
What my company has been doing is asking them for their exchange id on their 
line and filling it in here on the controller.  Also the controller on the 
their end has our exchange id from our line.  My company wants to have a 
controller and device for every customer on our AS400.  The way we have them 
create the line is with the CRTLINSDLC command and the EXCHID keyword as 
(*SYSGEN).  The problem is we are getting customers with the same exchange 
id's.  I realize that the exchange id's must be unique the current way the line 
and controllers are created but there may be a better way and I do not know 
what it is.   I must be looking at the wrong area in the AS400 Redbook softcopy 
library on CD because I have yet to find a way around this issue.  Suggestions?


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