Classic case of acronym evolution. I would like to fare as well myself. . . 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 robin...@sce.com
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2018 5:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Expanding acronyms was Re: Ask the experts about running things [Default] On 7 Nov 2018 16:09:34 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main charl...@mcn.org (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:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] >On Behalf Of scott Ford >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:20 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >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 <charl...@mcn.org> 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
