I always thought IBM's position on that was pretty silly. If you make
up a new three word name, expect it to quickly be turned into an
acronym. If they didn't want us to reuse an existing little-known
acronym they should have named it something else.
On 10/5/2021 9:56 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
USS has always meant Unix System Services.
Not unless you have a time machine; Unformatted System Services dates to the
1970s. Further, the last post here from IBM on the issue said that USS was not
an approved abbreviation for Unix System Services.
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USS is a VTAM term for Unformatted System Services.
USS has always meant Unix System Services.
Joe
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:30 PM Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
U.S.S. Unformated System Services, until Unix System Services tried
to take it over.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:24 AM Paul Gilmartin
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 17:35:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
While TSO does not support unambiguous truncation for command names, it
does for keywords. I don't know about ICCF.
Unambiguous truncation is treacherous. Addition of new
commands/keywords can break
legacy art. For that reason I eschew abbreviations in code and
pedagogy. The worst
case occurs when one command is a proper prefix of another command.
I freely abbreviate on a command line.
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 20:56:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
I have no problem with the DD/member ambiguity:
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