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Re: What could be affected by changing System Name versus Control pt name?

NO!!!   DON'T DO IT!!!!!
We used to have 2 systems with LCP *NE System-Name. Although we did figure everything out and everything worked well, there were minor issues from time to time. We were using SNADS, and, although the instructions for everything hint that they do not have to match, almost everyone does keep them the same, and IBM service "assumes" that they match. You could hear the *pause* every time we told them they were different...
We finally converted everything to match when we migrated to our latest machines. A couple of issues with applications that talk to the other machine; I think iSeries Access needed to be updated to use the new name, but we changed the LCP name, not the system name.
Our main issue now is that one of our system names contains a # sign; although IBM allows $#@ as valid characters, most everyone else does not. So we have TCP names that don't include the #. 

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Clare-- I've attached a chart I use to match up variables from one system to another, including the NETA, Configuration List, TCP/IP, and APPC/SNADS variables. I hope it gives you some assistance. 



Does anyone know what is affected if I change the System Name on CHGNETA but
leave the Local Control point name as is? Am I right in thinking that
iSeries Access looks at the LCP Name and not the System name?? Is there
anything apart from BRMS that might look at the System Name? (Snads is not
being used). Also, I know that it is recommended that the System Name and
LCP name should be the same, but does anyone know why?? I have trawled
through the previous correspondence/IBM stuff on this, and am still not
sure!
I would like to change the system names of the boxes that are still called
S+serialno to make things easier for international e-mail, but I don't want
to break anything on those systems.

thanks,

Clare

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