The standard interpretation of APAR is now
Authorized . . . ;
but it was once
Applied . . .
instead, which then made sense in relation to the organizational terminology in
use within IBM but makes none now.
IBM's practice of jacking up acronyms to replace their current, notionally
obsolescent, expansions with new, notionally more felicitous, ones is a
longstanding one; and large conclusions drawn from a current expansion can thus
be problematic.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817USA
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