On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:14:38 -0600, Steve Horein wrote:
>>
>> > IsStepInit.Userid. = "0"
>>
>> "FTPD." is the tail. The stem end at the first period.
>
>Is that always true?
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.icha300/ich2a3_RRSF_stem_variables_created_by_IRRXUTIL.htm
> 
What immediately caught my eye there was:
    The REXX stem examples in the last column of this table use
    a specified stem of "RACF®" and without the optional prefix.

No!  No!  No!  The "®" is not part of the stem and should not be
quoted as if it were.  Corporate Branding Police running amok.
Surely this covered by a statement in the frontmatter.

>Is IBM using stem and compound variable synonymously? Or is it a
>square/rectangle situation?
> 
It's a deplorable overloading of "stem".  But I feel the same about
having accepted "SYSIN" as a synonym for "instream"  Variety is
the spice of life but the antithesis of precision.

-- gil

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