In
<77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca3433336c...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 02/16/2012
at 02:14 PM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> said:
>They haven't been device "addresses" since 1983 with the advent of
>MVS/XA, in spite of the fact that people who had been calling them
>device addresses since 1964, for the most part, still call them
>device addresses. They have been device "numbers" since XA's
>redesign of the I/O architecture.
Make that Subchannel Number[1].
>But that's ok, since I still call z/OS by the name MVS.
Is that not the official name of the BCP in z/OS?
>At least I don't still call it "OS/VS2 Release 2."
Well, it isn't. Program product versions of MVS haven't installed on
top of the free base for decades, and before then the release number
had climbed to 3.8.
[1] To complicate matters, the subchannel-set identifier (SSID) and
the Subchannel Number in the subsystem-identification word
(SID) are not contiguous but have an intervening 1.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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