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I'm writing that on the blackboard 100 times. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 7:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL Charles Mills wrote: >I once had an all-out war (I won! I was the president!) with a tech writer who insisted that the >documentation should spell out Multiple Virtual Systems on the first reference to MVS (in technical >documentation for a hardcore mainframe product). My position was that it made us look like idiots. Might have been the same writer who we had to order to STOP changing "filename" to "file name" and "userid" to "user identifier" in VM documentation. Know your audience! However, I would have stopped yours even earlier on the grounds that MVS stands for "Multiple Virtual Storage", not ".Systems". Just sayin'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
