-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: USS pedantry (was Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:21:35 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >Exactly... common usage and less keystrokes. So what is the problem in >using it in a forum like this when everyone knows exactly what it >means? Are all the net jargon abbreviations"official". Do we waste >time debating it? >... No, I'm not complaining about the pedantry; I'm adding to it. Obviously not all net jargon is "official", but IBM has (or used to have) a list of oficial IBM abreviations and USS is (was) in it as Unformated System Services, not Unix System Services. Whether or not "everyone knows exactly what it means", there is not time when I hear USS and automatically think "Unix". Not one! 30 years of working with VTAM guarantee that. And if Unix for z/OS is meant, I resent the mental stumble that causes. (Yup. I'm pretty intolerent.) <SNIP> And in an ETR I had open with IBM, they [the TCP group] had to agree that using USS for Unix System Services was causing confusion when we also needed to discuss USS [VTAM] while discussing OMVS... Also, I recall seeing a non-published memo (internal, but not "IBM Confidential") where someone in support was pointing out the ambiguity being caused by Unix System Services being referred to by USS (when it is specifically part of VTAM) for routing of support issues!!!! Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
