Re: Usage: "data set" vs. "dataset"
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:59:50 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: >... >>" data set " vs. 1422 of " dataset " . Should the latter be corrected? > >Was your search case sensitive or insensitive? > Sensitive, and bounded by blanks, as above. >If insensitive you would also pick up DATASET which is a keyword in RACF >commands, for example. (And you would miss occurrences that involved >capitalization at the start of a sentence, too.) > Agreed. I also might have false positives, such as terminal symbols in syntax rules. Should the usage rule apply to M? What would ChatGPT say? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Usage: "data set" vs. "dataset"
On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:38:43 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I believe that several years ago IBM Pubs decreed that "data set" >rather than "dataset" was preferred style and swept documentation >emending the latter form. It seems to be creeping back. I just >did a crude scan of the 3.1 .pdfs a d found 96260 occurrences of >" data set " vs. 1422 of " dataset " . Should the latter be corrected? Was your search case sensitive or insensitive? If insensitive you would also pick up DATASET which is a keyword in RACF commands, for example. (And you would miss occurrences that involved capitalization at the start of a sentence, too.) -- Walt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Usage: "data set" vs. "dataset"
IBM seems to have a compulsion to periodically change nomenclature, e.g., going from data management to data administration. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2023 9:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Usage: "data set" vs. "dataset" I believe that several years ago IBM Pubs decreed that "data set" rather than "dataset" was preferred style and swept documentation emending the latter form. It seems to be creeping back. I just did a crude scan of the 3.1 .pdfs a d found 96260 occurrences of " data set " vs. 1422 of " dataset " . Should the latter be corrected? (The numbers were generated by computer -- I claim no better than one digit accuracy.) "Using Data Sets" contains no uses of " dataset " . -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Usage: "data set" vs. "dataset"
I believe that several years ago IBM Pubs decreed that "data set" rather than "dataset" was preferred style and swept documentation emending the latter form. It seems to be creeping back. I just did a crude scan of the 3.1 .pdfs a d found 96260 occurrences of " data set " vs. 1422 of " dataset " . Should the latter be corrected? (The numbers were generated by computer -- I claim no better than one digit accuracy.) "Using Data Sets" contains no uses of " dataset " . -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
