> Neither "Unformatted System Services" nor "Unix System Services" has or should have the word "screen". I dunno, after the many, Many, MANY times we've gone round on this I *want *to screen!!!!
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:32 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Neither "Unformatted System Services" nor "Unix System Services" has or > should have the word "screen". USS in VTAM determines the appropriate > logmode for an unformatted logon. USS for TN3270 includes equivalent > functionality; Unix System Services is what used to be MVS Open Edition in > 1993, two decades after VTAM and USS. If there is an unformatted screen > services it'sa not part of either VTAM or Unix. > > Of course, TN3270 includes the logon screen and Unix System Services > includes 3270 support, but "screen" is still not part of the names, and > never has been. > > The last I heard from IBM, USS was an official abbreviation for only > Unformatted System Services. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Matt Hogstrom [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2021 1:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Words fail me! > > Unformatted System Services was used in VTAM to specify the screen and > responses to uses to logon to formal VTAM sessions like TSO and CICS. > > USS was Unix System Services IIRC > > Matt Hogstrom > PGP key 0F143BC1 > > > On Nov 13, 2021, at 21:02, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Way back when (long before UNIX was added to MVS) the network sysprog > told me that USS stood for Unformatted Screen Services. > > > > Years after that but years (decades?) ago, I noticed that some VTAM > books were talking about UNIX System Services in a context completely > unrelated to UNIX. > > > > I sent feedback that this was not the correct expansion of USS in this > context. I expect others also did. References to UNIX were soon removed. > > > > But I wonder if that is why VTAM books talk about Unformatted System > Services now - because they changed UNIX to Unformatted, but not System to > Screen. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
