Chris, You are correct.
I did mean Cursor Stability, I actually confused my posts. I meant to send my post to the DB2 listserv. Thank you so much for the expansive explanation of my error. My appreciation for you grows by the hour. Rob Schramm On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Chris Mason <chrisma...@belgacom.net>wrote: > Rob > > > Got too focused on CS stuff. > > I don't expect you mean the following: > > <quote> > > cursor stability (CS) > > An isolation level that for cursors, after fetching and while positioned on > a > row, prevents the row from being changed by other applications until the > cursor position is moved from the row. CS also prevents any row that is > changed by other applications from being read until the change is > committed. > See also read stability, repeatable read, uncommitted read, isolation > level. > > </quote> > > http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/c.html > > So you should do what I always do and which I'm content for anyone to do - > unless its an "official" abbreviation inside an "official" IBM manual - > which is to > introduce your abbreviations as follows: > > Communications Server (CS) > > Until informed that the official IBM standard was as above, I used to use > the > following form in my presentations: > > Communications Server, CS, > > so I changed since I'm all for uniformity! > > > I feel like an idiot. > > Don't take it so to heart! I'm sure none of the rest of us feel that. > > Chris Mason > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:31:54 -0500, Rob Schramm > <rob.schr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I feel like an idiot. Got too focused on CS stuff. <VBG> > > > >On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM, McKown, John > <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > >> wrote: > > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > >> > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm > >> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 7:59 PM > >> > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > >> > Subject: VTAM acronym consistancy > >> > > >> > I have been trading e-mails with the Terminology folks and reading the > >> > Terminology page and noticed the formatted system service > >> > which made me > >> > wonder: > >> > > >> > If unformatted system service is represented by the acronym > >> > USS. Why is > >> > there no FSS for formatted system service? Or is the FSS > >> > acronym already in > >> > use but neglected by the Terminology folks? > >> > > >> > Rob Schramm > >> > >> FSS is Functional SubSystem (which is so much nicer than the NSS - > >> Nonfunctional SubSystem delivered by some vendors - and yes I know that > NSS > >> is z/VM's Named Saved Segment). It refers to printers which are usually > AFP > >> printers. They are driven in an address space (STC) separate from the > JES > >> address space. > >> > >> Ref: > >> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- > bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2E510/CCONTENTS > >> > >> -- > >> John McKown > > > >-- > >Rob Schramm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Rob Schramm Senior Systems Engineer w: 513.305.6224 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
