Bob > I call it USS when referring to VTAM, and Z/unix when referring to OE.
Just about quite right with two qualifications: 1. The "VTAM" reference needs to include the TN3270 server use where VTAM is involved only in supplying the macros from which the table used by the TN3270 server is built. 2. I would reverse the upper and lower case making "Z/unix" "z/UNIX". Chris Mason On Mon, 2 May 2011 21:40:18 +0000, Lester, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Leahy >Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 3:36 PM >To: [email protected] >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
