Many years ago at Guide Montral (83?) I heard the key note speaker say APAR stood for Atempt to Prevent A Reoccurance PTF stood for Possibly The Fix
Avram Friedman On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:54:18 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 >_________________________________________________________________ >With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. >http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html? ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_mobile_052008 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
