Planned availability June 21 2013.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Schwab" [[email protected]] Sent: 09/17/2013 08:21 PM EST To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs Since Cobol 5.1 and z/OS 2.1 haven't been released yet, I would wait until the GA date and see if the bookshelves are updated. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 September 2013 07:13, Kevin Minerley <[email protected]> wrote: > <deleted> > > Before with physical-only media, it was all or nothing. Now you can > skip getting the entire collection, go to the Publications Center and only > > download the products of interest (use the XKS shelf name to get the > related docs). > > But we are surely not contrasting with physical media. I haven't > loaded anything from a CD for years. For a long time I've opened > Softcopy Librarian, gone to the only "Internet source" I know of, SL > presents me with a list of "Product categories: like "z/OS V1.13 and > Software Products Collection", I choose one, and SL tells me what's > neen updated compared to what I have already loaded. Works great. > > > Of course, you can still use SCL to update either the entire electronic > collection or individual shelves. > > 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. > > This would be trivial for IBM to fix, but somehow I have the feeling > it's not going to happen because it doesn't match someone's idea of > how customers should use publications. > > Tony H. > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
