I wanted to hang the PDF documentation for products off of my mainframe website
and didn't want to recreate a method of organizing the books. I opened a PMR,
mostly hoping for a simpler method to move a PDF manual not associated with a
book manager format book to the Book manager bookshelves. Level 2 came back
with:
To create an extended shelf with documents which only exist as
PDFs requires that the meta data from the PDF is in the catalog.
With LibraryServer 3.0 this cannot be extracted directly from the
pdf (this functionality should be available with release 3.1).
.
The following circumvention can be used,
On PC running Windows & with SoftCopyReader:
- ftp the PDFs to PC running Windows using BINARY
- Create an extended shelf using Create Shelf in SoftCopyReader.
This will include assigning document id, Title and timestamp
- ftp the .xks file to zOS HFS shelf directory (BINARY)
ie directory specified in LibraryServer administration panel
"Enter directories for shelves: "
On zOS system:
- Ensure that PDFs have read permissions for all
- Rebuild catalog which will copy metadata from xks into catalog.
- Create/modify the required extended shelf
- Add document to an extended shelf will now lists all cataloged
documents for selection....
- rebuild catalog
I tried the above, it works. The procedure is also the one documented in the
manuals.
Softcopyreader has a feature called Shelf Organizer that is used to create
Extended shelves. The user must enter the title and id number of the manual.
I think it is painful to open hundreds of pdf files to extract the titles.
The file names and document id numbers are also restricted to bookmanager
format. Once the data is entered however, the Softcopy Librarian works well
for moving the shelf and books to MVS. I used/upgraded to Softcopy Reader 3.5,
I can't tell when the support for creating extended shelves was introduced.
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>Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:48:45 -0700
>From: "Gibbons, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: BOOKMGR PDF support
>
>The topic of managing PDF manuals with bookmgr library server came up a few
>days and it all sounded easy. I'm trying to add >a single PDF manual to the
>bookmgr library server. Note the book is not packaged as part of an extended
>bookshelf, yet.
>I've tried a couple of methods as suggested in Getting Started manual, they
>don't seem to work. Has anyone figured out a
>way
>to add the book and then add the book to an extended bookshelf? Would you be
>willing to share the procedure?
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:41:35 -0700
From: "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BOOKMGR PDF support
>
I have yet to build an extended bookshelf. However, I have discovered
that "normal" bookshelves seem to work just fine. If both BOO and PDF
documents are in the same directory -- or, when using traditional MVS
data sets, both data sets are identically named except for the last
qualifier -- the PDF icons appear *automatically* in the bookshelf
display, just as they do on IBM's web site.
>
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