Decades ago I was at Burlington Industries -- at the time almost every programmer in the area passed through Burlington Industries and/or other textiles companies, one or more times -- and they brought in a new platform to run factory processes. We were all busy reading the manuals for a week or so, which was full of new all-caps terms such as DOSRES, SYSRES, SYSTEM and so on....
Around the second day I ran across that last one, and paused. DOSRES I remembered from an earlier section, and SYSRES, sure, that meaning was obvious. But SYS-TEM? What would the "TEM" be? I came up blank. I ran through other new terms, and reread earlier pages, looking for a definition or even just a clue to what "TEM" might represent. Eventually I brought it to a coworker. In my defense, the word was in all-caps like the others, which in this case it didn't need to be. Still, whenever I need a story that makes me look foolish, this one is often conveniently available. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it. -Clarence Darrow */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 11:10 Decades ago, I learned "Segments", and I've thought that ever since. I may never have uttered it. But, GIYF (sic), "Storage" seems to be the mode, and I must retrain myself. I've heard operators pronounce "P" as "Purge". Is that misleading? I dislike abbreviations that are not prefix strings. I may make an exception for "X" for either "TRANS" or "EX". TSO seems not to have abbreviations, but alternate names. It's not "ALLOCate", so I may code "ALLOCATE" of "ALLOC", but not "ALLOCA". And "PGM=" is not a keyword. That should have been forbidden. --- On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 10:02:46 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >I guess that nobody bothered to tell the tech writer that the "S" in >MVS, is an abbreviation for "Storage". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
