RE: Changing System Name

I really push to give AS/400's a "real" name, meaning other than the serial
number.
I like it for a couple of reasons. One is that it makes it easier to
remember when out configuring PC connections.  It also "personalizes" the
system.  Much easier to say MARS(thanks for the example) than S1045321.
Probably the biggest reason is for future upgrades.  I have done several
RISC upgrades where the customer got a new serial number system and the old
sysname was the old systems serial number.  I couldn't just let the new
system inherent the old "name" so we bit the bullet and changed it.  The
only downside was to reconfig 50 or so PC's.


Bryan Dietz
3X Corp.





boothm@ibm.net on 12/30/97 05:41:06 PM

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on 12/30/97at 12:52 AM,  our friend PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com> said:

>As you replied to Walden, I think there's no need to make the network ID
>APPN.  APPN (the program) has no trouble connecting with other networks;
>you just need to tell the other network the name you're trying to connect
>to.
Are we talking the name for the AS/400?  We fretted over naming our new
600e and finally used the same name pattern as the rest of the network.
Our network is Planet based... Earth is our e-mail, moon is the dial in
Annex box, Sun is the Unix work station, Saturn is an NT box, and we named
the AS/400 "Mars".  Made sense to us!
But anyway my point is this:  I was surprised at the way the new AS/400
was received after it was named.  For some non-logical reason  people have
responded very favorably.  Now Mars has a personality and is much more
accepted than the old beige box.  Weird.  Still, a thought to consider.
Has anyone else given their AS/400 an official name and referred to it
that way?  What reactions were there?  (Sometimes I worry that I imagine
too much.)
I am reminded of someone's tagline that tells us not to give
life-characteristics to machines because they don't like it.
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Booth Martin
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