🚀 go-pugleaf

I want to thank all that responded to my SNA naming convention
request. All had good ideas. It is evident to me that the important
thing is to establish a naming convention (this was pointed out to me
in one of the responses and I would agree) and there is probably no
best way for every business. For those who are interested, I have
decided on "a sa bb d xx"  where:
a - is the controlling VTAM
sa - is the controlling subarea
bb - is a building code
d - is the device type  (printer,terminal,PC,LDEV etc.)
xx - is a unique identifier  0-9 and a-z combinations (within building)
My feeling is that dealing with problems on the building level will be
easier on the communications between systems, operations and data
communications.  Also, this only ties the device to a building,
providing increased flexibility for moving devices between
controll units while keeping the same device name.  Any other
technical information like the specific controller, and Line
that the LU is attached to can be ascertained by displaying the minor
node to VTAM. The LIB can be specified in the controller and
Line naming convention. MLT's and DFT's make mapping the LU to
the Port impossible in ALL cases so I went with xx.
This is no better or worse than anything I saw, only that it seems
to fit our needs. Thanks alot for all your help.