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The DEFNODE Parameter

This optional parameter defines a model device type, which can be specified as the device type in subsequent NODE parameter definitions.

Note: See the NODE statement for a full description of parameters.

Nodes using the model device type specification obtain the node attributes specified in the DEFNODE definition for the specified model device type.

The DEFNODE facility can be used to define a set of installation-dependent model device types, which can be used during definition of all network nodes. In this way, you typically only have to specify a node name, a model device type, and a network group number on each NODE definition.

The model device type name must be a 1 - 8-alphanumeric character string. Two special model device types are available

Note the following:

• The parameters specified on the DEFNODE PRINTER statement are copied to all other printer NODE statements.
• The parameters specified on the DEFNODE DISPLAY statement are copied to all other display NODE statements before processing the parameters for the specific NODEs. This means that the DEFNODE parameters are considered the defaults; you can override these defaults by specifying other values on the NODE statements.