It's a rather old acronym, going back to a stand-alone program for the S/360. The original CLIP could only change the 6-character volser on a DASD volume; later versions could create a tape volume label.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 6:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CLIP? 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
