SPF was installed in my first shop in the 1979 time frame as Structured Programming Facility. A couple of years later it was split into two parts System Productivity Facility and Program Development Facility.
Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Inc. Tampa, FL -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson > > My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly > stood for Structured Programming Facility. Interesting.... I remember it as System Productivity Facility, to which one could add the optional PDF (Program Development Facility) we now recognize as ISPF option 2 (mainly). Of course it's possible that the "F" in each case stood for "Feature" rather than "Facility", but that was long ago and far away.... -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
