Don't give marketers any ideas, Chris. :-) The book is Volume II of "System Performance Feature Reference for IBMR TivoliR Decision Support for z/OSR". What a mouthful.
The preface also includes this helpful text: The following terms are used interchangeably throughout this book: * Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390 * MVS(TM), OS/390, and z/OS * OPC and Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Nuttin' about Unix System Services, USS, or any combinations of the letter z and Linux. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Craddock, Chris > Sent: Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:25 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules > > Dave Kopischke wrote: > > Mark Zelden wrote: > > >I don't know what it suggests. It looks like the doc should say > > >Linux for zSeries or something like that... not z/OS Linux. > > > > Exactly. That's why the conspiracy theorists are implying LINUX may be > a > > replacement for UNIX System Services in some future z/OS release. > > Geez where does this nuttiness come from? It may be great fodder for the > conspiracy theorists, but z/OS UNIX (whether it's called "USS" or not > :-) and "Linux on z" (again, regardless of what it's called) are utterly > different things. Neither one can directly replace the other except > perhaps in the fevered imagination of a marketer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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