Tom I don't think it was you whom Ted had in mind.
I think I've done this before - but I'll do it again. Try the following: Go to page http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zose/bkserv/zose/ussz18_srch.html#text This is where you can "Search text of all books in: z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services bookshelf". Enter USS and click on "Search". If "USS" was "official" you would expect a massive number of hits. How many do we find? 4 manuals (out of 11) with 5, 3, 2 and 1 hit respectively. 1. Checking z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services Planning, we find 5 hits, all of which refer to the names of something starting with USS_. 2. Checking z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services Messages and Codes, we find 3 hits: 3 messages out of several thousands. In fact here the message explanations appear to use "USS" simply to mean "UNIX System Services" - a few isolated exceptions which, to my mind, illustrate the aphorism "Exceptio probat regulam". 3. Checking z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services File System Interface Reference , we find 2 hits, respectively, some assembler code comments and some C code comments, places where non-standard abbreviations are quite common, especially if the programmer didn't anticipate his/her efforts might appear in a manual. 4. Checking z/OS V1R1.0-V1R8.0 UNIX System Services Parallel Environment Operation and Use, we find 1 hit, a sample log file heading. In other words, despite a few slip-ups, the abbreviation "USS" for "UNIX System Services is eschewed by the regular IBM manuals for the topic. By contrast the phrase "UNIX System Services" appears in the hundreds in the major manuals. Of course I have no doubt that the developers among themselves use "USS" very freely as will any, for example, redbook authors or SHARE attendees, who come into contact with them. Well, that was my two eurocents of somewhat doubtful value. I guess the "USS" pedant count has now reached three. <g> And in case there are some bemused readers who are completely flummoxed over what all the fuss is about, I can add that, officially, "USS" should refer to VTAM's "Unformatted System Services", the human end-user "log on" interface for SNA devices, which still retains some prominence with 3270 TELNET. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Marchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006 1:55 PM Subject: Re: S80A loading CEEMENU3 > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:31:31 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>yes I know I shouldn't call it USS > > > >Why not? IBM does. > > > >There is only one (pedantic) individual that claims that. > > Thank you, but I don't think I'm the only one.... > > > > >Because UNIX is a trade-mark, IBM came up with UNIX System Services (USS) > for short. > > An interesting hypothesis.... > > -- > Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
