We have changed ours several times over the past 12-15 years. We always published a name, never a number. Some people demanded a number anyway, some did their own lookup but either way, if THEY had problems, they were at the bottom of the triage list.
You could do a netstat to see what ports are listening to see if you have missed any services. You might be able to get connection reports to see who is using those ports from your network or from SMF depending on the application. You need to ask if any client firewalls have your address in their allow list, they will need to add the new one as well. Printers can be a problem, the mainframe initiates the connection. Oracle was always a problem for us, for some reason the ORANAMES values had to be numbers, not names. Len Rugen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
