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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills
>
> So many MVS utilities have vernacular names that consist of a
> 3-letter prefix followed by a functional name, they just seem
> to roll off the tongue that way: I-E-B-copy, I-E-H-program,
> I-E-B-gener, I-E-B-print/punch, I-E-H-init, I-E-H-list,
> I-E-B-update, D-F-H-sort.
Then there are the "generic" utilities I-E-B-eyeball and I-E-H-eyeball
(that's the version that comes with no-line trifocals).....
> I-D-C-access-method-services seems to fit the same pattern
> but everyone calls it I-D-cams. I guess IBM should have given
> it an entry point of IDCSVCES; then we could call it I-D-C-services.
Aren't they the ones whose subsystem includes the program IGDZILLA?
-jc-
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