I was on a course once many years ago in Australia. The instructor went through VTAM, ISAM, BDAM, VSAM, etc. He then finished up with WHAMBANGTHANKYOUMAM. I can't remember what he said it stood for, but it was brilliant.
I today's political correctness he probably wouldn't get away with it. On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 09:59, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > [Default] On 7 Nov 2018 16:09:34 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > [email protected] (Charles Mills) wrote: > > >Good thing it was before the days of z/OS. What does the z in z/OS stand > for? AFAIK "zarchitecture" is not an English word. > > > The better explanation of MVS is that once the IBM acronym is > established, IBM has been known to change what it stands for. ISPF is > the classic case. I believe it started out as structured programming > facility then became system productivity facility and finally > interactive system productivity facility. > > Clark Morris > > > >Charles > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of scott Ford > >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:20 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Ask the experts about running things > > > >God, I love it. Buzz words, after 40 yrs you heard many it not all. > >I have been mentoring two guys and have hit these ...it gets weird when > you > >talk from a sysprog/dev point of view > >and try to explain it to newbies .. > > > >Regards, > >Scott > > > >On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:58 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I hired a tech writer once who had been taught in school that you should > >> introduce every acronym the first time you used it: > >> > >> "Whizbang/390 runs on any current release of Multiple Virtual Systems > >> (MVS) ..." > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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
