Jon > Get over yourself.
The only response to this is get over your nonsensical instructions to others to get over themselves. What tosh! > Most of the folks on this list ... Interesting approach, leading to an exercise in "set theory", wouldn't you say? "Most" suggests not "all", so let's try and work out who knows what. A is all the list subscribers. B is the subset of A who know of the three letters in the incorrect context. C is the subset of B who also know of the three letters in the correct context. D is the subset of B who do not know of the three letters in the correct context. E is the subset of C who studiously employ the correct abbreviations when communicating to others. F is the subset of C who studiously employ the incorrect abbreviation when communicating to others. > Most of the folks on this list know exactly what the question was about ... As I made clear already in other posts, I am considering only what appeared in the subject. At the time the subject was seen your "folk" would constitute set D in terms of *imagining* they "knew exactly". I'm obliged to exclude set C because of the possible ambiguity in the subject. > ... and most of the folks I know are aware that USS is also used to denote > UNIX System Services, ... Interesting "also"! Without the "also" and assuming you know all the list subscribers, this is a definition of set B while. with the "also", this is a definition of set C. I'm actually rather pleased that "most" of your acquaintances are aware of both the incorrect use and the correct use. I do hope they act on that knowledge and belong to set E rather than set F, the "elevated" rather than the "forsaken"! In case you haven't noticed it in another post, here is why I feel confident with the adjectives "correct" and "incorrect": >From a "Summary of Changes" in the OS/390 V2R6 MVS Initialization and Tuning >Guide: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA1E106/CHANGES <quote> | As part of the name change of OS/390 OpenEdition to OS/390 UNIX System | Services, occurrences of OS/390 OpenEdition have been changed to OS/390 | UNIX System Services or its abbreviated name, OS/390 UNIX. OpenEdition may | continue to appear in messages, panel text, and other code with OS/390 | UNIX System Services. </quote> Today's "abbreviated form" is, naturally, "z/OS UNIX". - Anyhow the reason for the "set theory" was to highlight the fate of set D, whom we have discovered are "most of the folk on this list". With a "let go" here and a "let go" there or when responsibility is transferred to some geography with a time difference from GMT which is not a whole number of hours, for example, responsibilities may well be transferred from some z/OS topic responsibility over to or may well include - I'm not endorsing the wisdom of such a spread of responsibility - Communications Server in all its aspects. It is quite unnecessary that the seeds of confusion are then sown in the minds of the already put-upon systems programmer who may suffer some trauma moving out of set D into set C. It is quite unnecessary to cause any confusion when that "Summary of Changes" text is noted > There is no good reason to keep arguing over this and it is a waste of > everybody's time. and there is thus an excellent reason to keep pointing this out - since I'm right, I don't have to argue, I just have to turn to pointing out the truth from time to time - and I thank you for your time which I assure you, if you were not previously aware of the truth, has not been wasted! If you were previously aware of the truth, you will only be wasting time if you have it to spare and you continue reading an answer you already know. - However, if we're talking about "wasting time", how about the members of set D getting the wrong impression from the subject line and then discovering that there are commands and messages that cannot be reconciled with what they thought they knew. How about the following as subjects?: - "Trouble with USS command" - "What does this USS message mean?" - "How do I change the USS module?" If this refers to the correct usage - which is entirely possible from the wording - what about our often "recently arrived" brethren who we have proof, since they sometimes reply to posts as well as initiating them, may well decide they could help when z/OS UNIX System Services is the topic and we oblige them to do a "double take" - at least? And how about you? Although you appear to belong to set C, what would you assume? Chris Mason On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:53:02 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L <[email protected]> wrote: >Chris, Get over yourself. Most of the folks on this list know exactly what the >question was about and most of the folks I know are aware that USS is also >used to denote UNIX System Services, despite your objections. >There is no good reason to keep arguing over this and it is a waste of >everybody's time. >Pax vobiscum, >Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
