Sadly, the complexity of the MANPATH is just part of doing business in OMVS with anything more than the IBM supplied environment. And with Rocket's approach using Conda it can be even more complex depending on how much is under conda control, in which case the MANPATH may not be active for the user until they activate a conda environment.
Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New RFE - enhance man -k processing On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:47:30 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > ... >The gist of the RFE is for IBM to enhance the 'man -k' process to >support multiple whatis files (e.g. whatis.vendora, whatis.vendorb, .) >within the MANPATH. > >The URL is > ><https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID= >152155> > I notice that on Linux such man pages appear in /usr/local/share/man/. The z/OS analogue might be /usr/lpp/man/. And on MadOS I have: 547 $ echo $MANPATH /usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man 548 $ ls -a /usr/local/share/man/man1 | wc 231 231 2303 -- a bunch; mostly symlinks to supplier installation directories. Your suggestion avoids the name collision if different vendors supply products with identical names at the cost of burdening the end user with a complex MANPATH. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
