At first I was pretty much in favor of the changes Alan was suggesting, but
Mike brought out an excellent point. I realize, or suspect, that IBM
Endicott and perhaps a lot of other shops may run with RSCS as the standard
userid for the RSCS machine, but in 2 out of the 3 companies for which I
have worked in my professional career, we didn't. One of them was IBM and
the shop I supported, starting in 1978 called it VNET and we didn't see a
good reason to change it to RSCS. Changing the system rscs (note small
letters) id to RSCS is not a trivial task given the tendency to imbed the
id in execs. Leaving the default or undefined as "*" has a lot of
merit. It at least causes an error that is noticeable and can easily be
fixed in one place rather than having errors drag out until all of the
execs that will be run get used and cause an error.
Jim
At 04:01 AM 2/24/2006, you wrote:
On 2/24/06, Harding, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While I understand the arguments, I prefer the old "*" for the default
net machine. I'm involved with a number of images which use a different
userid for rscs. A "sp prt RSCS" on those images results in an error and
the printer remaining routed "for <userid>".
And worse, SPOOL CONS RSCS START will not start console spooling when
RSCS does not exist, where the * would only cause the logging to be
misplaced.
Rob
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Jim Bohnsack
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