I wanted to write a script to index a bunch of manuals that I downloaded from IBM and wanted the forms code to be the primary key. The file names are not very helpful. Given that, I have to live with whatever information IBM chooses to provide, unless and until someone submits an RFE with a compelling business case for adding more metadata.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:01:22 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > ... >Lacking a convention to use a specific metadata key for the manual >publication number, the obvious and simplest way to supply the manual >publication number in a manner that could easily be extracted from a PDF >file is to include the complete designation as part of the file name. > The OP hasn't explained clearly what he needs to do, perhaps with an example of what he wants to see. Is there a satisfactory example, perhaps from an organization other than IBM? -- 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
