They haven't been device "addresses" since 1983 with the advent of MVS/XA, in spite of the fact that people who had been calling them device addresses since 1964, for the most part, still call them device addresses. They have been device "numbers" since XA's redesign of the I/O architecture. And developers and documenters still create screen displays and tech doc with the now 31-years-obsolete nomenclature. I complain now and then to deaf ears. But that's ok, since I still call z/OS by the name MVS. At least I don't still call it "OS/VS2 Release 2." Lol
Bill Fairchild -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses? This is still a DOC problem as the manual simply states these are device addresses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
