In a message dated 6/30/2007 11:34:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>an IBM developer has, in effect, had to rap the redbook authors on the
knuckles for talking about an
"unofficial" command thereby indicating how the redbook authors are
independent of IBM orthodoxy. Thus is just in case you were going to try to
revive the idea that redbook content was IBM orthodoxy.
Even the title of one of these publications ("redbook") is unorthodox, as it
is dangerously close to infringing on the rights of Redbook [1] magazine. My
employer recently cautioned all of us employees to be careful in our use of
the word "redbook" when referring to an IBM pub. I now think of one these
excellent publications as "books whose covers are red" but not as "redbooks"
any more.
>If there is ever a context where "Electronic Technical Response" and
"External Time Reference" might cause confusion then it would make sense to
spell out probably both to be sure of clarity
What if you needed to open an ETR on the subject of a Sysplex's ETR? Wow.
The mind boggles. That could turn into a technical "who's on first" routine.
I am still suffering from the wanton usurpation of IBM's acronym "DOS" (more
fully DOS/360), which I used 40 years ago on S/360 systems, to mean nowadays
an operating system for Toys-R-Us computers. [2]
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
[1] Imagine that the word "Redbook" is italicized, as it should be, and
which I have done with my email editor but the list server inconveniently
(IMHO)
removes the italicization before forwarding my post to the world.
[2] I might be a mainframe bigot. :-)
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