Tony, Yep we did that also, when put out networks in. It took to build a schema flexible enough to support 56 Internaltional sites and all their LUs.
Scott On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 4:00 PM Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 11:40, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > When VTAM/SNA went to Multi Systems Networking Facility (MSNF) in the > > 1980s, shops suddenly needed to take the whole world into account when > > exposing heretofore 'private' node names. Most shops had a SYSA, which > > would not do when everyone began interconnecting. > > > > IBM's recommendation at the time was to prefix outward-facing node names > > with the SHARE installation code, such as SCE. Shops following that > > convention would unlikely collide with another installation. > > > > In the mid 1990s, when SNA interconnection between enterprises was at its > peak, IBM had an SNA network name registry. (For all I know they may still > have it.) Names were of the form <two letter ISO country code><three > character customer code>, so e.g. IBM itself was USIBM (and CAIBM or > whatever you were connecting to). I wonder if USCAD was ever registered... > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
