-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Spencer Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: non-IBM documentation (Friday, but on-topic)
I resisted PDF's in bookmanager for a long time because of the inability to search "shelves", saw this the other day... You can now search PDF "Extended" bookshelves much like you can with bookmanager shelves. ---Snippet from the IBM website For the PDF indexing prototype, the PDF files for z/OS V1R7 and later element and feature libraries include indexes, and shelves of z/OS V1R7 and later PDFs include library-wide indexes. This new function gives z/OS V1R7 and later PDFs a high-function linguistic BookManager-like search, as well as the print facility that PDFs are known for. You can search the content of individual z/OS V1R7 and later PDFs and receive weighted (not only sequential) search results. Using the shelf index, you can search across the content of indexed PDFs in a z/OS V1R7 or later extended shelf and perform a library-wide search. The new searchable PDFs will help z/OS customers wade through our large library and access information more quickly. In the future, we plan to index more and more IBM PDFs, and other companies can also provide indexed PDFs. <SNIP> Interesting. Fujitsu had something similar to this for their COBOL (V3) product back about 1999. And it was using PDF, with indexing. Adobe had apparently come out with this, where you can search all the PDFs in a subdirectory a few years ago (can't remember the release level or year). These are functions/features that I can't live without now, and thought were fantastic when I found I could make it work, because I despise, eschew, hate, abhor, Bookmangler, Bookmonster, Bookthrasher (all of these are what a certain product is known as by certain persons in IBM for what it did to things such as PoO's ART & DAT charts, for starters). I'm not an IBM Director, my attention span is longer than a "sound bite". Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed here are entirely those of the poster and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Sterling Commerce. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
