Paul Kimbrel's Musing

By day, I’m a middleware developer (software that connects software), and I have an RSS news subscription to IBM’s Websphere MQ update news site.  Basically, it’s a news feed that announces fixes and updates to their messaging queuing software (formally called MQSeries).  Here’s the title to one of the updates today:

SE10763: MQM400-MSGAMQ5615 STRMQM FAILS WITH AMQ5615 AFTER AMQZXMA0 FAILS MCH0601 IN FUNCTION RFXADDCLQMGR

Um, yea… did you get that?  It’s pretty much like that every day.  Several times a day.

That just cracks me up.  Of course, it worries me a bit that I actually understand most of what that’s saying.  However, I’m finding that I have to gloss over the 20+ announcements I get each day from this that site since I can hardly read the headlines.  Didn’t IBM get the memo on typing in all caps??

I guess this is IBM, the “Lord of the Acronyms.”