I consider the term 'memory leak' to be a great contribution to the mainframe world. 'Storage creep' meanwhile is the guy who keeps bugging you with phone calls trying to sell you second hand memory cards.
I was in a meeting the other day and said 'PTF'. One person was not a techie. Somebody else translated it as 'patch', which I accepted with the proviso that 'patch' has a fairly specific meaning in the mainframe world and is not synonymous with either 'PTF' or even 'fix'. As a language teacher and learner, I recognize that similarities among often cause as much trouble as differences. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 06/22/2006 12:36 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Mainframe Limericks... J R wrote: > I apologize if I offended any person for whom English > is not their first language. It was certainly not my > intention to do that. > > My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist > on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our > well-established vernacular. It's funny. More and more I find myself referring to storage creep as a memory leak, TCBs as threads, WAIT/POST as blocking and unblocking, reIPL as a reboot of the mainframe, etc. Talk to them in words they understand and ... well ... they'll understand you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
