I agree with R.S. . After all, we don't want to become like that political body in France (sorry, don't remember the name) which attempts to MANDATE how the French speaking world will use words. IIRC, the have "outlawed" many "words" such as Le Hamburger in favor of some long involved phrase which is "pure French". And if the acronym USS is unclear from the context (I.e. If I'm talking a about a USS shell script, most people should know that I'm talking UNIX and not VTAM), then I would think that it would be up to the poster to make sure that [s]he was clear by stating "z/OS UNIX System Services" (which I sometime call z/UNIX) or "VTAM Unformatted System Services" (the later could be VTAM USS because that is clear too). Actually, I usually just say UNIX and assume that everybody here knows that I mean z/OS UNIX System Services and not Linux or HP-UX or AIX or Solaris.
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