John Having just spent a hour or so dealing with a *real* - VTAM - problem - are there any others out there? - I peeked at the archives - since I'm an "archives man" for IBM-MAIN, none of your floods of e-mails, thank you - and spotted a post from Mary Anne Matyaz - whose name will be forever bound with the ambiguity at the heart of this topic whether she like it or not - and you. Opening hers first I saw that she was determined firmly to stand on the quicksand and her excuse was the shortness of a 3-letter acronym versus 20 keystrokes (including the blanks).
Since it seemed possible you were about to reply to this, I anticipated you would reiterate your adherence to z/OS UNIX, down to 9 characters including the blank. Disappointment! Then I wondered whether or not you had ever encountered zUNIX - 5 characters and getting quite close to the so much favoured 3 characters - which I think I saw suggested somewhere and found actually used in an APAR. Perhaps the 5-character zUNIX is what Mary Anne needs to rescue her from the slough of ambiguity. Incidentally, your sample ambiguous Subject can go as far as including the word "command" or "message" and still beguile the wrong audience. > If I cannot understand the question, or even the context into which the question should be placed, I ignore it completely. I believe the list wouldn't work if we didn't all follow this precept. Talk about flood of e-mails! Chris Mason On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:40 -0600, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: >I would hope that context would make it clear (as it is here since HFS in IBM- MAIN is unique and unlikely to refer the MAC OS HFS filesystem) as to whether a question is about UNIX or VTAM. Unfortunately, at times, I have seen a message similar to the following: > >"Problem with USS. Please help!!!" > >and that is the complete message. Of course, being the louse that I am, I simply ignore those messages. If I cannot understand the question, or even the context into which the question should be placed, I ignore it completely. And the above example, I don't know if the person is having a problem with z/OS VTAM, z/OS UNIX, z/VM VTAM or the U.S. Navy. > >-- >John McKown >Systems Engineer IV >IT > >Administrative Services Group > >HealthMarkets(r) > >9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 >(817) 255-3225 phone * >[email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz >> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:14 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: HFS file questions >> >> LOL. You can post all the links you want, the simple fact of >> the matter is, USS >> IS the Acronym, or more precisely, the initialism of Unix >> Systems Services. >> >> Your argument is actually whether it's an 'approved' acronym. >> Personally, I >> don't really care. Unix Systems Services is too damn long and >> I will continue to >> use USS. (The initialism, not the acronym). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
