> USS has always meant Unix System Services.
Not unless you have a time machine; Unformatted System Services dates to the 1970s. Further, the last post here from IBM on the issue said that USS was not an approved abbreviation for Unix System Services. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Joe Monk <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL USS is a VTAM term for Unformatted System Services. USS has always meant Unix System Services. Joe On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:30 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > U.S.S. Unformated System Services, until Unix System Services tried > to take it over. > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:24 AM Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 17:35:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > > >While TSO does not support unambiguous truncation for command names, it > does for keywords. I don't know about ICCF. > > > > > Unambiguous truncation is treacherous. Addition of new > commands/keywords can break > > legacy art. For that reason I eschew abbreviations in code and > pedagogy. The worst > > case occurs when one command is a proper prefix of another command. > > > > I freely abbreviate on a command line. > > > > ________________________________________ > > On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 20:56:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > > >I have no problem with the DD/member ambiguity: > > >\edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
