> 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>". Subsequent print operations send > output to the user's print queue and the naïve user doesn't > know what to do with it, if they even realize what happened > to it when it fails to print. At least with the default of > "*" it ends up visible (to rdrlist) in their rdr queue.
Are these outside DR systems that you're talking about (ie, systems that don't know what specific hardware they'll be running on)? If they're not, I think I'd argue that if you have a valid reason to change the RSCSid, you can be reasonably expected to update SYSTEM NETID appropriately. In that case, the default would never apply. Given that most ISV products care about the CPUid as well, I'd think that could be handled by coding a default entry in SYSTEM NETID to use if no CPUid matched, and have that entry default to the correct RSCSid for that system (I use nodeid DISASTER and a RSCSid of RSCS for that).
