Shmuel wrote: |>APAR = Authorized (Authorised for the rest of the world) | |My spell checker accepts authorized bu tot authorised.
Similarly, spell checkers for British English accept 'authorised' and not 'authorized'. The version with the 's' is standard in the parts of the world that were once and on some maps still are colored|coloured pink, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island, Belize, among many others. The 'z' version is largely confined to the United States and its dependencies. John Gilmore, Ashland MA, 01721 - USA On 8/19/12, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on > 08/17/2012 > at 07:07 PM, Scott Fagen <[email protected]> said: > >>APAR = Authorized (Authorised for the rest of the world) > > My spell checker accepts authorized bu tot authorised. > >>PMR is a Problem Management Request > > Are you sure it wasn't "Record"? > >>ETR is Electronic Technical Response > > Are you sure it wasn't "Report"? > >>Not all APARs cause fixes to be coded. > > Do you consider a documentation update to be a fix? The ETR mechanism > can be used to report problems with documentation. > >>IBM measures and attempts to maximize the number of problems closed >>without fixes (FIN, > > FIN implies an intent to issue a fix. I've even suggested FIN when I > dealt that a the fix needed more testing than it would get if issued > as a PTF. > >>It is not entirely a "work avoidance" initiative. > > But often is. > >>The engineer may iterate over various versions of the fix by >>changing the name (AA12345, AB12345, AC12345...) or updating the >>rework date. > > That's fairly common when the error exists in multiple releases. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
