IBM does use USS for UNIX System Services.
McKown, John
<quote>
PROBLEM SUMMARY:
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* USERS AFFECTED: Users of BSAM/QSAM that access UNIX System *
* Services, USS, files. *
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* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: With today's z/OS UNIX System *
* Services, USS, there are two different *
* file formats: text and binary. The *
* files are seen as byte-streams. Text *
* allows a user to specify a delimiter *
* (one of a few predefined characters) *
* to indicate the end of a "record". On *
* output, the delimiter is appended to *
* the end of the data and stripped on *
* input. The delimiter is stored as an *
* attribute of the file. *
* *
* The problem that some applications are *
* encountering with text files in the *
* z/OS USS filesystem when using BSAM or *
* QSAM is there is no way for a text *
* file to contain a delimiter as part of *
* the data stream. *
****************************************************************
* RECOMMENDATION: *
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Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4
Why can't we bury this stupid discussion once for all?
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Rob Schramm
please let it go the way of the dodo bird.
Rob Schramm
Ted MacNEIL
>Why can't we bury this stupid discussion once for all?
Because every now and then (last week as the latest example) some pedant complains when somebody else uses the USS in the 'wrong' way.
Sometimes, they are deliberately obtuse, even though the context points to UNIX System Services rather than VTAM.
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Greg Shirey
and only found one (on the 28th) - and the discussion was VTAM. I can't
think of a "pedant" complaining here recently about this issue. I
remember there was a question earlier this week if USS and OMVS were the
same thing, and the answer was "Many people use USS to mean 'z/OS UNIX
System Services'. It is an unapproved acronym." This does not sound
like a complaint to me, it sounds like a helpful answer.
Greg Shirey
Ben E. Keith Co.
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Because every now and then (last week as the latest example) some pedant
complains when somebody else uses the USS in the 'wrong' way.
Sometimes, they are deliberately obtuse, even though the context points
to UNIX System Services rather than VTAM.
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Walt Farrell
<John....@HEALTHMARKETS.COM> wrote:
>Maybe not officially, but on IBMLink, for APAR OA25204.
>
Sorry, John, but I believe that is a proper and allowable use of USS. The
rule (as I understand it) is that first usage must be UNIX System Services,
and that was done here. The reference is clearly saying UNIX System
Services, and indicating that thereafter for this discussion, USS will be
used as a shorthand.
--
Walt
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.
<1255350322-1262878386-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2058433512-...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>,
on 01/07/2010
at 03:33 PM, Ted MacNEIL <eama...@YAHOO.CA> said:
>Because every now and then (last week as the latest example) some pedant
>complains when somebody else uses the USS in the 'wrong' way.
Sorry, tonto, but this thread was not opened by an alleged pedant.
>Sometimes, they are deliberately obtuse,
Sometimes you lie about other posters. This is a case in point.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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Ted MacNEIL
and only found one (on the 28th) - and the discussion was VTAM.
I responded to one such pedant, recently, and I thought it was on IBM-Main.
Maybe, it was RACF-L?
Anyways, in general I stay away from that (and other useless) argument.
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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R.S.
Peter Relson
PSAMODE is not an intended programming interface. Any assumption you make
about its values, let alone its stability, is done at your own risk.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.
at 10:16 PM, "R.S." <R.Sko...@BREMULTIBANK.COM.PL> said:
>AFAIK there are two (three?) IBM-MAIN members which are allergic to USS
>as UNIX System Services,
At least one of whom is an IBM employee.
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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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