That's a good one, Bob! We've all done that kind o' thing and it's just amazing afterward--you just can't believe you did it!
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 9:21 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Decades ago I was at Burlington Industries -- at the time almost every > programmer in the area passed through Burlington Industries and/or other > textiles companies, one or more times -- and they brought in a new platform > to run factory processes. We were all busy reading the manuals for a week > or so, which was full of new all-caps terms such as DOSRES, SYSRES, SYSTEM > and so on.... > > Around the second day I ran across that last one, and paused. DOSRES I > remembered from an earlier section, and SYSRES, sure, that meaning was > obvious. But SYS-TEM? What would the "TEM" be? I came up blank. I ran > through other new terms, and reread earlier pages, looking for a definition > or even just a clue to what "TEM" might represent. > > Eventually I brought it to a coworker. > > In my defense, the word was in all-caps like the others, which in this > case it didn't need to be. Still, whenever I need a story that makes me > look foolish, this one is often conveniently available. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become President. I'm > beginning to believe it. -Clarence Darrow */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 11:10 > > Decades ago, I learned "Segments", and I've thought that ever since. > I may never have uttered it. But, GIYF (sic), "Storage" seems to be the > mode, and I must retrain myself. > > I've heard operators pronounce "P" as "Purge". Is that misleading? > > I dislike abbreviations that are not prefix strings. I may make an > exception for "X" for either "TRANS" or "EX". > > TSO seems not to have abbreviations, but alternate names. It's not > "ALLOCate", so I may code "ALLOCATE" of "ALLOC", but not "ALLOCA". > > And "PGM=" is not a keyword. That should have been forbidden. > > --- On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 10:02:46 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: > >I guess that nobody bothered to tell the tech writer that the "S" in > >MVS, is an abbreviation for "Storage". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
