Yes, can you give us additional "Source"s besides http://publib.boulder.ibm.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs > > On 17 September 2013 12:03, Kevin Minerley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>Well I could if the .des files were kept up to date, but evidently > >>that's not happening. Which is exactly where we came in 29 posts ago. > >>If the .des files were up to date - in this particular case so that > >>the z/OS V1.13 file contained COBOL V5R1 as well as older COBOLs - > >>Charles would have had no cause to complain. There is surely no reason > >>to tie the .des file content to some now obsolete CD collections. > > > > The collection level .des file gets updated every time the deliverable > > gets produced and put in (usually) the root directory of the > > collection. At least at this level, IBM is keeping the > > collection-level .des file current. If you never intend, to download > > another > collection kit, I am not certain that you will get a "new" suite of .des > files. You > might consider downloading at least new "versions" as they usually involve a > complete change of order-number/material ID. > > > > That "should" work even against individual products. I have seen it > > successfully update r13 docs that did not make the initial electronic- > deliverable drop. > > > > Have you tried using one of the "newer" .des files? > > I would if I knew where to get one. Softcopy Librarian offers only choices > based on the /epubs/df/ebrscrt.des file, and that has the problems I > mentioned above: The comments for the files it points to don't seem to be up > to date (e.g. the z/OS 1.13 collection is dated Sep 2012, even though the > update date on the directory is Sept 2013), so it's hard to know what's a new > file and what isn't. And then the actual collection .des files don't seem to > have > the new material in them, e.g. COBOL V5R1. Or rather, there exists no file > *that is pointed to by a top-level .des file* that contains a list of the > COBOL > V5R1 pubs. Since IBM has disabled the ability to look at the directory, there > is > no way I know of to find these things other than by discovering an external > reference of some kind, which can't be automated. > > Can you point me at one of these "newer" files so I'm sure we're talking about > the same thing? > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
