RE: Wusu?

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This just reminded me of one such field name that was used to hold the
"Product Print Size" - PPSIZE.  Most report had selections and/or sorts by p
p size.

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
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Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: jkrueger@dhagroup.com [mailto:jkrueger@dhagroup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:29 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Wusu?


You just triggered one more recollection;  we created several special
opcodes for WSU that were never implemented anywhere else.  The one I
remember best was a new opcode for adding new transactions, which we
decided to name PUTA, for PUT as an Add.  The week before announce we were
forced to redo all the announcement materials, update the manuals, and
change the code, because people in Spain were outraged at our audacity in
adding such a terrible thing to the language.  We learned that in Spanish,
a puta is a VERY derogatory term for a lady of the night.

I don't remember anymore what we changed the opcode to.  But IBM's
processes were updated to do searches for new keywords against a list of
dirty words in *all* languages...

Janet Krueger
D H Andrews Group
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