gt; Unformatted System Services.
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>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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> Unformatted System Services was used in VTAM to specify the scre
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Unformatted System Services was used in VTAM to specify the screen and
responses to uses to logon to formal VTAM sessions like TSO and CICS.
USS was Unix System Servi
Prior to IBM introducing OMVS to z/OS, the term USS was used by VTAM as the
acronym for Unformatted System Services. Once OMVS was introduced, I do seem
to remember a bit of discussion on the use of USS, as VTAM folks used it, and
it was starting to be used by the folks pushing for more use of
Unformatted System Services was used in VTAM to specify the screen and
responses to uses to logon to formal VTAM sessions like TSO and CICS.
USS was Unix System Services IIRC
Matt Hogstrom
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> On Nov 13, 2021, at 21:02, greg.pr...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
>
> Way back when
Way back when (long before UNIX was added to MVS) the network sysprog told me
that USS stood for Unformatted Screen Services.
Years after that but years (decades?) ago, I noticed that some VTAM books were
talking about UNIX System Services in a context completely unrelated to UNIX.
I sent
Shmuel wrote about someone "spelling out" bind wrongly.
That is a doozy! We had a tech writer-supposedly experienced-who we had to
stop from "fixing" things like "userid" and "fileid" (this was on a VM
product). She wanted "CP QUERY USER ID" and "Enter file ID" and like that.
No, just no. But
I've seen some doozies, but this takes the cake. Anyone else have an example of
a author blindly assuming that an upper case word needs to be explained with a
totally wrong expansion? Yes, There is a Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND),
but it has nothing to do with logical units or even SNA .
