Re: Changing System Name

Or a development machine I came across named Lulu after the Software Development
Manager's cat.

                                                            James Turnbull
                                                            As/Tech Consulting

Walden Leverich wrote:

> We have two AS/400s in our shop one named Bilbo and one named Frodo (as in
> Baggins). I know someone else who named their 400 Kramer (as in Cosmo), and
> yet another who had their 38 named poobear. I think naming the machines with
> a "friendly" name helps the users relate to them much better than
> "S1102003", not to mention the friendly names are much easier to say. The
> only problem is that you must have a management that has a sense of humor.
> Some people don't like hearing their 1/2 million dollars referred to as
> "Mars".
>
> -Walden
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
> [mailto:mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net]On Behalf Of
> boothm@ibm.net
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 5:41 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Changing System Name
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin
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