My one concern would be to the future. If you were to leave, would a replacement sysprog have to relearn a new vocabulary because there is a different vocabulary in place? And since the people there don't know the Z/OS equivalents, is there a risk that the gap between what they say and what the new guy interprets could cause a major outage?
For my money, the company should stump up for enough basic training to allow Z/OS discussions to be held in the appropriate language and using the appropriate terms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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