On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:54:05 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >In an obscure corner of IBM's PK campus is a nondescript bunker-like building. >The basement of that building houses the IBM Acronym Factory. The IAF is >staffed by a cadre of probationary lawyers and a rotating squad of 14-year-old >boys. A proposed acronym is first sprung on the boys; if they giggle, the PA >is discarded. Otherwise it's tossed into the lawyer cage. If it emerges >intact, it's on the road to acronymhood. > >'USS' was relegated to wannabe status for reasons forever locked in the IAF. >No matter how commonly it's used, it doesn't officially exist. Think of trying >to sneak a snippet of Anglo Saxon slang past the Alliance Francaise. Cannot >happen. > ITYM "L’Académie française". http://www.academie-francaise.fr/
>-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 3:20 PM > >On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:32:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >>They got rid of Unformatted System Services? >> >Just the abbreviation. Perhaps they'd rather not take sides. Did the >abbreviation appear in an older Glossary? Wayback Machine? BitSavers? >>> The z/OS glossary contains no definition of "USS". I wonder what an RCF >>> would cause? >>> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/zosbasics/com.ibm.zglossary.doc/zglossary.html -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
