What does 'DFH' means, thank you! -Reply -Reply
Ernie Schaefer
Thanks Ormond. I KNOW this is true also. In 1973 CICS was HERE in the
USA. One of these days I'm going to find the IBM'ers (they are still
around) and get the scoop.
Ernie Schaefer
Baltimore, MD Opinions are MY OWN
>>> Ormond Higgins <ohig...@JHUADIG.ADMIN.JHU.EDU> 03/22/96
07:39am >>>
I hate to burst your bubble, but the prefix DFH predates the move to
Hursley by a long shot...
Ormond D. Higgins
Johns Hopkins University
>>> Denis & Joan Deutsch
<deu...@PIONEERPLANET.INFI.NET> 03/21/96 09:02pm >>>
At 02:42 AM 3/21/96 GMT, you wrote:
>Does anyone know what 'DFH' means? All CICS stuff begins with
'DFH'.
>Does it relate to Hursley?
Rumor has it that way back when in a land far, far away, the
IMS/DC developers were concerned about the competition from an
upstart program product called CICS. They decided that the country
wasn't big enough for the both of them, and talked the
IBM gods into moving it to England, thinking it would die. When this
happened, they also changed all the message prefixes to
DFH - "Destined for Hursley".
Not my story, it came from an old, long time CICS IBMer who told it to me
with great pride in the late 70's. I found it interseting, but highly
questionable.
Denis
Ormond Higgins
me Don rather that Ormond. So, I am DH -- not DFH. And, I did
not write CICS -- Ben did.
I have the original announcement letter dated April 29, 1968. Back
then it was called Public Utility Customer Information Control
System. "It is a new program modularly constructed to provide
the basic control system structure for the installation of electric,
gas, and telephone company information systems." The product
cost $600/mo. The Program Description Manula cost $5.00, the
Operation Manual cost $1.30, and the System Manual cost $16.50.
That was all of the documentation available.
>>> Jamie Tracey <jam...@CIX.COMPULINK.CO.UK> 03/21/96
03:15pm >>>
> One of the Systems people thinks
> that the DFH stands for the initials of the person who initial
wrote the
> product. So much for history....now I can't wait for
CICS/INTERNET !
Ernie, The guy was Ben Riggins, or something like that, so it just
goes to show how Systems people keep myths going ha?.....:-)
Dennis F.
Higgins rhymes with Riggins...?
regards
Jamie Tracey
Circle Computer Group UK Circle Computer Group USA
+44(0)1483 755 299 +1 212 922 9095
jam...@cix.compulink.co.uk
Ormond Higgins
Ormond
Jim Piatt
is that it stands for Donald Frederick Hill. I believe I can by this
knowledge for Bryan (sp) C. Verhoff of Verhoff and Associates. Seems he
too was an IBM developer way back in the old DOS days and he wrote/developed
much of the dispatcher code. Those portions (read programs) bore his initials
BCV. Some of you might remember seeing these letters in older code.
I hope I haven't bored you or that my info is inaccurate. If so its Bryan's
fault.
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