Chris, I have to admit that when I first saw this post, I assumed it was a tongue-n-cheek post and promptly deleted it. After reading it again... I can only apologize to the originator of this thread for the mean-spirited and completely unhelpful nature of your response. It is well documented that you have an unbelievable pet-peeve regarding the USS acronym. I think you have made your position abundantly clear. Perhaps you feel it has been too long since your last reasoned rant regarding the USS subject. In which case, please feel free to start a thread restating your opinion. BUT... It is just not ok to hijack a post and effectively belittle a poster. I shouldn't even have to post anything about etiquette to long time members. At the very least you should apologize.
Rob Schramm -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: HFS file questions Dick > "USS" - meaning Unix System Services, not the VTAM term Unformatted Session Services :-))[1] Well, I thought I knew just about all that really mattered about VTAM but I was puzzled by "Unformatted Session Services" about which I could not recall previously having heard. Checking the manuals - z/OS V1R12 just to make sure they were the latest - I found - to my relief - that "USS" still meant "Unformatted *System* Services" as I remembered it and had not been transformed to "Unformatted *Session* Services" however plausible a sequence of words that might conceivably be in the context of VTAM and SNA. Perhaps there is a consideration that can be taken into account before sentencing in that there *are* two flavours of USS table, a "*session*-level USS table" and an "operation-level USS table". I suppose it's easy to get confused in this complex world of VTAM and so a caution can be handed down. Incidentally, earlier in the thread Stephen Mednick quoted a manual where "USS" in this unofficial context was introduced as "UNIX System Services (USS)" so I guess, because it is part of the same thread, "her" thread, of course, that Linda Mooney has an albeit tenuous excuse for the misappropriation! Chris Mason [1] I caught this travesty only because I have a digest from Google Groups every day as a way of making sure I don't miss the one in 10 or 20 or so threads within which I may have something to say. The reference to USS just happened to appear in the sample text offered with this digest system. Otherwise I would have passed all of this by in blissful ignorance of the malapropism. The Google Groups digest can also pick up threads from poor deluded individuals who imagine that they have posted a query or provided an answer only to be totally ignored because the post appears neither in subscribers' inboxes nor the archives. On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:44:47 +0000, Bond, Dick (DIS) <di...@dis.wa.gov> wrote: >Hi Linda, > >"USS" - meaning Unix System Services, not the VTAM term Unformatted Session Services :-)) > ... > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On >> Behalf Of Linda Mooney >> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:40 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: HFS file questions >> >> Hi Dick, >> >> Nobody here, me included, has ever used copytree. None of us know >> much about USS at all, although I am determined to learn - if it kills me! >> ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
