The issue isn't with MANPATH - when you issue the command: man -k . It reports a summary of 'all available' man pages.
And when you issue: man -k xxx It will report 'all' the man pages that have xxx The OMVS man command does *not* search the MANPATH but the information in the EPH.SEPHTAB dataset. Thus Rocket, Co:Z, etc. man pages will never be found. Using the command man xxx apparently does use the MANPATH as it will display other man pages (e.g. curl). What I'd like is the ability to update the EPH.SEPHTAB, or .....? 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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 2:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: omvs man pages On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:56:38 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >This explains how to enable the man pages in omvs >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=utilities-enabling-man-page >s > A more recent edition: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=utilities-enabling-man-pages> >BUT - is there a way to update this with additional man pages - say >some from Rocket (i.e. curl) ? > Alas, I see: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition/utilities/man.html>: ... The historical MANPATH variable is not included in POSIX because no attempt is made to specify naming conventions for reference page files, nor even to mandate that they are files at all. Bummer. I would have hoped for something such as MANPATH=/usr/man/%L:/usr/lpp/com.rocketsoftward/man Are the Bookie pages formatted on-the-fly or are formatted versions cached? >Lionel B. Dyck <>< >Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com >Github: https://github.com/lbdyck -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
