Just a note to close this thread. One of the listeners here kindly sent me scans of the user’s manual for this level of Easytrieve along with a scan of the reference booklet and an example of usage of the product of the same age.
The listener also enlightened me on more of the history of the product than I previously knew, which also proved quite helpful. Once again, this list proved we are a community that takes care of each other. Thank you. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2026 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Seeking a very old users manual Thanks for the link. I explored some of the “community” docs available, but unfortunately none of them contained any language-reference type material for much older base versions of the product. Most of them seem to be for older “add-on” products or installation material. We are licensed for and do use the latest product version, but there are legacy production jobs still using that very old version for which we have no documentation of the syntax or semantics. From review of the legacy jobs there seem to be a few significant changes in at least semantics and some syntax differences. I am trying to get a login to the site to discuss our problem on the Easytrieve forum, but they seem to have locked out my old CA login credentials. I’ll keep working at that and see where I can get. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Attila Fogarasi Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2026 2:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Seeking a very old users manual Broadcom has 2 older Easytrieve version docs available (11.5 and 6.4), and some links to older "community" doc which might have what you are looking for: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/devops/ca-easytrieve-report-generator/11-6/additional-resources.html On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 10:28 AM Farley, Peter < [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > If anyone here has a forgotten stack of old software manuals lying around, > I would very much appreciate it if you can look there to see if you have a > user manual for this version of this product, or any documentation close to > this era: > > Easytrieve 9.0D > COPYRIGHT 1978 BY PANSOPHIC SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED > > TIA for anything you can find. > > Peter -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
