On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:22, Chris Mason <[email protected]> wrote:

> John
>
> However, as I have just mentioned to Ed Gould, it's only a "VTAM message
> 10"
> these days because VTAM developers were prepared to allow the IP side of
> Communications Server to use their macros for the purposes of providing a
> table for the TN3270 server to behave like VTAM does when analysing a 3270
> display user's attempts to enter the information necessary to prepare an
> SNA
> session initiation request and to return suitable messages when he or she
> made a mess of it, in general and the initial message 10 apart, of course.
>
> > I use "z/OS UNIX" or "z/OS UNIX System Services" ...
>
> What about the even further compressed "zUNIX" you suggested a while ago?
> Perhaps Ed Gould's initiative with SHARE could have that enshrined as the
> approved and unambiguous abbreviation - although it did cause one of the
> usual suspects to lose a vital part of his anatomy when last suggested!
>
> Chris Mason
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:56:56 -0500, McKown, John
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Personally, I don't use USS at all. I use "z/OS UNIX" or "z/OS UNIX System
> Services" for UNIX related posts. For CommServer, I will usually say "the
> VTAM
> message 10 screen", which is what most of the VTAM related USS message
> seem to be related to. It is much more difficult for anybody, even n00bies,
> to
> be confused by that. Oh, I need to type more characters. But I can afford
> the
> pain. And yes, with my arthritis, it hurts to type. That's why some of my
> posts
> have misspellings and other errors. Well, that and I'm lazy.
> >
> >--
> >John McKown
>
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