Hi John, I employ the same strategy you related. Google seems to do quite well with the question format. When Google doesn't give the results I want, I add site:IBM.com or site:redbooks.IBM.com on to the search.
Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:57 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles Mills wrote: >> The problem for me starts with the incredibly inconsistent titling, which >> causes the manual titles to sort in no meaningful sequence, making it doubly >> hard to find the relevant manual. Many of the IBM bookshelves have this >> problem, but DFSMS is IMHO the worst. >> >> Look at the list below and tell me "quick, which one of these manuals will >> tell you how to use the IDCAMS utility to delete all members of a PDS(E)?" >> >> z/OS DFSMS Software Support for IBM System Storage TS1130 and TS1120 Tape >> Drives (3592) SC26-7514-04 > <snip> > > While I do recognize the problems (who wouldn't?), I must express > considerable sympathy for the writers and editors. > > Why? They cannot win. > > A comprehensive reorganization of the library could easily cause people who > are experienced in a particular area of the system to stumble about for years > while perhaps simplifying things for the less experienced in any given area. > At the same time, leaving things as-is keeps people who know how to find what > they need happier, perhaps at the expense of people who do not. > > However, the library's organization is not the only way to approach things. > The search arguement "z/os delete all members of a pds," which I happened to > try first on Google, yielded this URL at the top of the results list (watch > the wrap): > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.idak100%2Famspdse12.htm > > The topic it points to is "Using the access method services DELETE command to > delete all members of a PDS or PDSE." > > That same topic is the third hit with the second argument I tried, which was > "how do I delete all members of a pds?" It rises back to the top with my > third try, "how do I delete all members of a pds on z/OS?" > > This is not meant to excuse anything, but it seems an effective coping > strategy that is reasonably independent of how we might choose to organize > the information. YMMV, of course. > > -- > John Eells > z/OS Technical Marketing > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
