I say Id Cams, Zee Oh Ess, Ess Queue Ell. IFOX00 is Assembler (XF), the last free assembler in the CP-67, DOS/360, OS/360 lines. It looked like a rewritten Assembler (F), but there were enough differences that an OS/360 Stage 1 sysgen wouldn't assemble on it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2023 4:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question for our international friends (mostly) Most of those are familiar to me, but I've always said "eye dee cams" and "zee oh ess". "SQL" I hear both ways, and pronounce it according to my mood at the time. Never heard of "IFOX00". --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Public opinion: What everyone thinks everyone else thinks -Joseph Sobran */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2023 10:59 South of England: CICS 'kicks' IMS 'eye em ess' VSAM 'vee sam' IDCAMS 'id cams' (id rhymes with lid) zOS 'zed oss' ('zee arse' makes me snigger internally :-) ) JES3 'jez three' SQL 'sequel' IFOX00 'eye fox zero zero' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
