Craddock, Chris wrote:
<snip>
The zAAP -name- came very late in the game. When it was first disclosed
to us it was called an IFA, which probably stood for "integrated
facility for applications" as you suggest. However, after the marketers
had their way with it, the name became zAAP. That happens a lot. The
lesson is not to read any intelligent meaning into the names. Often
enough the names are just the product of a fevered marketing brain.
<snip>
...then again, though I've no idea what happened in this case
(despite my job title and my perhaps sometimes-fevered brain, I'm
not actually in Marketing), sometimes the original name does not
make it through the name search and it gets changed for that reason.
And IIRC, IFA did indeed originally stand for what you suggested
above.
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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