Steve Smith wrote:
>I don't understand IBM's insistence on "data set", which is a generic
>phrase equivalent to "set of data".  "Dataset" has been in use for decades
>to mean a collection of records organized in particular ways and stored on
>a computer system, particularly on our architecture.

I share your consternation. But at this point we're arguing against the tide 
(to mangle a metaphor). Might as well argue about what "USS" stands for!

...phsiii (standing back...)

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