Hi All,
This seems like a Friday topic, but...
I call it USS when referring to VTAM, and Z/unix when referring to OE.
Thanks!
BobL
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Don Leahy
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 3:36 PM
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Subject: Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:22, Chris Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
> John
>
> However, as I have just mentioned to Ed Gould, it's only a "VTAM
> message 10"
> these days because VTAM developers were prepared to allow the IP side
> of Communications Server to use their macros for the purposes of
> providing a table for the TN3270 server to behave like VTAM does when
> analysing a 3270 display user's attempts to enter the information
> necessary to prepare an SNA session initiation request and to return
> suitable messages when he or she made a mess of it, in general and the
> initial message 10 apart, of course.
>
> > I use "z/OS UNIX" or "z/OS UNIX System Services" ...
>
> What about the even further compressed "zUNIX" you suggested a while ago?
> Perhaps Ed Gould's initiative with SHARE could have that enshrined as
> the approved and unambiguous abbreviation - although it did cause one
> of the usual suspects to lose a vital part of his anatomy when last suggested!
>
> Chris Mason
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:56:56 -0500, McKown, John
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Personally, I don't use USS at all. I use "z/OS UNIX" or "z/OS UNIX
> >System
> Services" for UNIX related posts. For CommServer, I will usually say
> "the VTAM message 10 screen", which is what most of the VTAM related
> USS message seem to be related to. It is much more difficult for
> anybody, even n00bies, to be confused by that. Oh, I need to type more
> characters. But I can afford the pain. And yes, with my arthritis, it
> hurts to type. That's why some of my posts have misspellings and other
> errors. Well, that and I'm lazy.
> >
> >--
> >John McKown
>
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