Common Node Parameters

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Common Node Parameters

This section describes the common node parameters.

nodename,

The nodename parameter is required and specifies the VTAM name of the display or printer node. There is no default value.

device type,

The device type parameters are required and define the device type of the display or printer node. There is no default value.

The device type specified could be the model name of a previous DEFNODE definition, or one of the following device types:

Device Type	Node Type	Comments
3277–2	Display	Display Terminal
3278—1	Display
3278—2	Display
3278—3	Display
3278—4	Display
3278—5	Display
3279—2	Display	Color Display
3279—3	Display
3279—2L	Display
3279—3L	Display
3262	Printer	Line Printer
3268	Printer	Matrix Printer
3284	Printer
3286	Printer
3287	Printer
3288	Printer	Line Printer
3289	Printer
3770	Printer	SNA Remote Station
3800—3	Printer	AFP Printer
3812	Printer
3816	Printer
3820	Printer
3825	Printer
3827	Printer
3835	Printer
3900	Printer
4028	Printer
4214	Printer	Matrix Printer
4224	Printer
4234	Printer	Line Printer
4245	Printer
5210	Printer	Text Printer
6262	Printer	Line Printer
6670	Printer	Inform. Distrib.
7436	Printer	Text Printer
AGFA—400	Printer	AGFA 400
CT—9380	Printer	Centronic 9380
CT—9380E	Printer	With EVFU
FCB9xxxx	Printer	Move FCB name in as PAGEDEF to force A2PC transformation
HP—IDA	Printer	V9.0 HP-LaserJet
HP—IDEX	Printer	V9.0 HP-LaserJet
HP—2686	Printer	HP-LaserJet 2686
HP—2686D	Printer	HP-LaserJet 2686 with drawers
HP-2686X	Printer	HP-LaserJet 2686 extended
OCE—xxxx	Printer	Generate extra line with PAGEDEF=PAGEDEF=x-x,FORMDEF=x-x,FCB=x-x
VERSATEC	Printer	Plotter (MPP=180)
X—2700	Printer	XEROX 2700
XX—HPIDA	Printer	HP-LaserJet printer
XX—XEROX	Printer	Xerox 4045 laser printer

GROUP=nnnnn,

This required parameter specifies the network group number in which this node must be defined. The lower limit is 1 and the upper limit is MAXGROUP if specified else 99,999 during startup and MAXGROUP during REINIt. There is no default value.

MAXDATA=nnnn,

This parameter specifies the maximum size of buffers that can be sent to the node, if the outbound RUSIZE is not specified during session initialization.

If the RUSIZE outbound field in the bind image is non-zero, the size of the largest request unit (RU) that can be sent to this node is calculated on the basis of this, and it overwrites any MAXDATA specification.

The lower limit is 256 and the upper limit is 32,767. The default value is the value specified for the SNABSIZE statement.

SNABSIZE=nnnn,

This parameter specifies the size of the data area of each VTAM transmission buffer in bytes.

The lower limit is 256 and the upper limit is 32,767. The default value is the value specified in the global SNABSIZE statement.

Note: For the SNABSIZE statement for a printer node, we recommend that you define a size equal to the size of the physical printer buffer.