Sums of commuting square-zero transformations

We show that a linear transformation on a vector space is a sum of two commuting square-zero transformations if and only if it is a nilpotent transformation with index of nilpotency at most 3 and the codimension of in kerT is greater than or equal to the dimension of the space . We also characterize products of two commuting unipotent transformations with index 2.