On 13 September 2013 15:14, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Okay! Dave, can you find any Enterprise COBOL 5.1 shelf for Softcopy Librarian?
I did a little poking around, since it wasn't obvious where Softcopy Librarian was getting its info. You set up an Internet "source" such as http://publib.boulder.ibm.com (I can't remember if SR comes with this built in, or if I got it from somewhere else, but I think the former.) So when you click on it, SL does an HTML GET for /epubs/df/ebrscrt.des on that site. This file contains a barely structured list of filenames and comments, and *that* is where that "Sep 2012" string on the "z/OS V1R13 and Software Products Collection PDF/BookMgr" comes from. Evidently no one changed the comment, even though the file dates are 13 Sept 2013. So the file for this Collection is /epubs/df/zosv1r13.des, and that, despite the same .des filetype, contains a much more structured - though not XML - list of .bks, .xks, .boo and .pdf files, and some other metadata. You can see these in a browser, but unfortunately the directories containing the files (/epubs/book, /epubs/pdf, and /epubs/bkshelf) are not listable. Now looking at the page http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27036733 that was mentioned for COBOL, the PDF files are on the very same publib.boulder.ibm.com server as the SL files. So all it would take would be for someone at IBM pubs (if there's anyone left), to edit the file zosv1r13.des and insert six PDF filenames for COBOL. Or they could do it right and actually create a .xks bookshelf file as well; even Softcopy Reader can do that. As for whether there's any way to fake this by putting your own descriptor files somewhere, well perhaps, if you have a local web server that can serve the /epubs/df directory locally, and redirect all others to the IBM site. Or perhaps you could use the proxy support in SL to redirect selectively. But then you'd still need to know the filenames, and by the time you've done that you might as well do it all (heh) manually. Friday Fun. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
