On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:55:57 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark Zelden wrote: >> I like when IBM (and other vendors) give you better documentation or >> better ways to view it. I don't like having things taken away. >> >> In the past, IYO came in several formats: BookManger, AFP and in readable >> text in the orderhlq.SCPPLENU data set as member LIST1403. >> >> Does it bother anyone else that the orderhlq.SCPPLENU only contains a >> PDF version now that you have to transfer to your workstation to read? >> Was it removed to save 100 tracks of DASD? I often reference this >> document during the life of an OS at my shop and even when it is >> gone at times. The easiest place to find it and view it is (was) on z/OS. >> > >I heard a story at SHARE in Orlando that some books have "broken" the >BookManager BUILD process and there's nobody at IBM whose job it is (or >who knows how to) fix it. At least, that's the story I heard about why >they're having so much trouble putting out the POO in BookManager format. > >When used with Library Server, BookManager format allows viewing a >manual -- topic by topic -- via a web browser ... far preferable to >downloading a multi-megabyte PDF document every time you want to look >something up. > Well, at least in this case it is still distributed in BookManager format also in the orderhlq.INSTGUID.BOOK data set. But I have to download that to view it just like the PDF since we don't run library server. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
