Mark - who clearly hasn't cleaned the egg off yet[1] > IBM didn't misuse it.
Wrong! > The description of the parm used "official" (ahem) IBM terminology. More wrong - if possible! Yet again for those who wilfully try to present untruths: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 Is there some subtlety here that I - and perhaps I alone, no sorry, also John Eells - has missed which somehow makes this come from an unreliable set of web pages and we are too stupid to find the correct ones? But thanks for the low blood pressure help anyhow! > USS is still a convenient abbreviation for Unix System Services ... It would be a shame to break a "hat trick" of ducks - Oh, back to the "egg" again! > ... and all the current pubs are still called Unix System Services something or other (not z/OS Unix something or other). And your point is ... ? I thought I might have an idea what your point was until I checked the current V1R12 z/OS UNIX bookshelf - yes, I trust you noticed, "z/OS UNIX" - although it does differ from your "z/OS Unix" by using upper case - and, looking in the most general manual, the "Planning" manual, I noted that Chapter 1 was "Introduction to z/OS UNIX". http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB2B0/1.0 No, I really haven't the first <expletive deleted> clue what you are talking about! > Just because IBM started using z/OS unix doesn't mean every software MF component known to man kind is going to change their parms / keywords (for example, ZUXHOME for CICS SIT). Ditto! What's to "change"?[2] It was wrongly composed in the first place by pure carelessness - egged (sorry) on by misuse by the ignorant. It was careless because John Eells - I believe - implied that there is a formal process whereby developers can discover whether implied initialisms and other abbreviations have been taken already and careless developers may very well imagine they are allowed to bypass that process when they find others extensively misusing a particular initialism. That's the explanation of how this particular CICS aberration happened - unless somebody, somebody who understands sensible software development procedures, has a better idea. > BTW, ISTR a time B4 this thread when real mainframe discussions took place on this list. I would have thought hammering out an understanding of software development procedures was a valid tangent to find room for discussion on IBM-MAIN - or maybe I'm just getting old, not trendy enough in this long- haired UNIX world ... > Let's please get back to it ASAP! Sooner rather than later - see above. Incidentally, it's one of the marks of an argument which finds its premises have become unsafe which prompts calls to evacuate the building! > If it sounds like I'm making an argument for both sides, I'm not and yet I am. :-) You also lost me here - but, unlike Peter Hunkeler, I'm obviously having a bad day! - [1] http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=9690 [2] Just - I think - to be clear, "UNIX System Services", the full title giving rise to this misused initialism, had previous incarnations which could never have given rise to the initialism so how could the initials have been in use before the title UNIX System Services" was devised - unless referring to the correct entity - thereby requiring a "change"? - Chris Mason On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:28:54 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:54:27 -0400, Chicklon, Thomas <thomas.chick...@53.com> >wrote: > >>Yeah, just when I conceded to never misuse USS, along comes IBM. IBM! In an >OFFICIAL PUBLICATION! Now what are we to think? I'm just so confused now. >> >>Tom >> > > >(I can't even believe I'm going to add to this thread) > >IBM didn't misuse it. The description of the parm used "official" (ahem) >IBM terminology. USS is still a convenient abbeviation for Unix System >Services and all the current pubs are still called Unix System Services >something or other (not z/OS Unix something or other). Just because >IBM started using z/OS unix doesn't mean every software MF component >known to man kind is going to change their parms / keywords (for example, >ZUXHOME for CICS SIT). > >If it sounds like I'm making an argument for both sides, I'm not and yet >I am. :-) > >There is software development, then there is marketing (like IFA vs. zAAP), >and then there is reality. The reality is people like to use abbreviations, >official or not. > >BTW, ISTR a time B4 this thread when real mainframe discussions >took place on this list. Let's please get back to it ASAP! > >Ty. L8r. Cya. (Jk) > >Mark >-- >Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
