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physical unit identificationThe low-order 20 bits (5 hexadecimal digits) of an SNA node ID that, together with the block ID, identifies a station in an SNA network. This is the same ID that is assigned to that SNA node on the host. The PUID is transmitted as part of an exchange identification (XID) command, along with the node's block number.In NetWare Link/SNA, PUID corresponds to the IDNUM operand in the Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM) physical unit (PU) definition statement.

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