IBM defined USS as Unformated Screen Services as an official acronym. They have and will changed any use for Unix to Unix System Services.
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Was 'USS file' never officially blessed for this purpose? Seems like a > natural solution forever. Worst case 'OMVS file' should work. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Terminology - Datasets > > On 26 April 2017 at 12:35, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It matters in documentation. If we were to document the FOO parameter >> as "specify the name of a file" that would leave you wondering what we >> meant, unless other context made it clear. We say "specify the name of >> an MVS dataset" or "specify the name of a zFS file" or some combination >> thereof. > > > While we're on this... I discourage people here from documenting things like > "specify the name of a zFS file". Who knows how long zFS will be around? HFS > seems to be effectively dead. Maybe in a couple of years a great new QFS or > something will be the UNIX file system du jour on z/OS. > One of our product's docs were full of "HFS" references from ten years ago, > but had nothing to do with defining a new HFS or the like; they just meant > UNIX file, as opposed to MVS dataset. So that's what we say now: "UNIX file", > or in the rare case it's possible to be confused with a file on another UNIX > system, "z/OS UNIX file". > > Tony H. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
