Like "USS" the letters "LE" are now not supposed to be used in official IBM
documents.  I know that the "dox" people have accepted RCF's on it whenever
I still find it (where "Language Environment" is supposed to be used.

Like "USS", once can find "LE" in macros and other software (and probably
Red Books) but that doesn't mean that "official IBM documentation" is ever
supposed to have it.

"John Eells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
> 
> > In
> >
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
isx.prod.on.blackberry>,
> > on 12/12/2006
> >    at 12:31 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > 
> > 
> >>Why not? IBM does.
> > 
> > 
> > IBM has posted, *ON THIS LIST*, that USS is *not* a correct
> > abbreviation for Unix System Services. Individual IBM employees may
> > have misused the term, just as individual IBM employees may have
> > misused the term BSC.
> 
> That's exactly right.
> 
> > Further, there is a sound reason to to make USS a formal abbreviation
> > for Unix Services; the fact that you need to configure USS in order to
> > provide access to Unix Services, or at least to configure a component
> > with the same syntax.
> 
> I wasn't involved, and do not know why, but "USS" was not 
> approved as a short name for z/OS UNIX System Services.  (It 
> wasn't because nobody tried.)  Believe me, I'd love to have to do 
> less typing!
> 
> -- 
> John Eells
> z/OS Technical Marketing
> IBM Poughkeepsie
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

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