I'll second Tobias's recommendation: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp>I know you're right about important information sometimes being hidden in obscure places. The solution is to give up on the hard copy manuals and use the online manuals. With BookManager bookshelves, searchable PDF's and the Information Centers I'm sure the writers expect you to search online for information and some of it would be impossible to find using only hard copy. The only time I use hard copy is when I need information on an old IBM product. Some of the products still used and supported today last put out new documentation before the books started going online. One caveat about searching in the infocenter link above. You will often get too many hits. If you have an idea of the areas to which you can limit the search, use the SEARCH SCOPE settings to do it. You can save those so that you can do more focused searches when you need to, and and only search everything when you have no idea where to look. Not everything is in the Information Centers. Some books are on FTP sites, some are still only in BookManager Bookshelves and some are located in places that seem impossible to find from the main www.ibm.com page. Some books have moved to other sites like infoprint.com or afpcinc.org. . Google is your friend for finding books. --Roger On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:27 AM, John Walker <jwalker...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I don't often comment here, but I feel motivated to comment about the 'read > the manual' comments. I can't speak for OLD IBM manuals, but I CAN speak > for current ones. You are inundated in spurious and unnecessary things in > all the RIGHT places, but frequently the important information is in very > obscure places. AND there is no consistency in where that obscure location > is. This is consistent with the typical programmer doc, but still...one > can't say reading the manual does anything but tell you where the > information you need is NOT at. As such, I've given up on IBM manuals 20 > years ago. Can anyone give a class on reading current IBM manuals and FIND > info(which you don't already know, I can find THAT)? >
