I got into this biz in the late 70s. The term CLIP was common parlance for 'label reformat'. I still have several canned JCL members with 'CLIP' in the member name. If nothing else, the term is unique, while 'reformat' could have any number of meanings.
. . 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 Thigpen Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 8:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: CLIP? To answer your question, "as opposed to what", that would be "reformat". Tony Thigpen zMan wrote on 05/18/2018 10:15 PM: > I have to ask: "Change Label In Place" -- as opposed to what? Removing > the platter and sending it back to IBM to have the label changed? > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ooh, dueling acronyms. It's SCIDS all over again! >> >> . >> . >> 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 graeme >> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 4:33 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: (External):Re: CLIP? >> >> Change Label In Place >> A standard card deck utility in the software FE toolbag 50 years ago. >> >> Graeme >> >>> On 19 May 2018, at 08:08, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I used the term CLIP (reformat label) today with a colleague who >>> clearly >> did not understand. Isn't it an acronym? I can't find any hits. >>> >>> . >>> . >>> 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]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
