Which search box did you use?  The one right above the Contents area combined 
with a scope setting to limit the shelf or manual should do the trick.  I found 
it pretty easy to create a custom scope list by clicking Scope, then selecting 
only the specific areas I wanted to search.  Give it an easily remembered name 
and your search should be much more relevant.

That said, I'm still a fan of Library Server but am slowly learning to work my 
way through the InfoCenters.

Hope that helps.

--
 
Donald Grinsell
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406-444-2983
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"To understand something does not mean approval of it."
~ Commander Spock

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 11:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How Bad is InfoCenter?

Wanting to look up some HLASM features, I resigned myself to trying InfoCenter 
for 2.1.  My experience:

On the Publibz z/OS main page, I find a link to:

    z/OS V2R1 Information Center
    http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp

... a page with two frames.  The left frame is a list of shelves; some useful 
things: HLASM, ISPF, TSO, Unix, ...  I had to scramble to find JCL; it's on the 
MVS shelf.

Clicking on a shelf opens the right page to a list of books on that shelf.  
Each book has Abstract|TOC|PDF options.
TOC opens the TOC; Clicking on an entry opens that section.

Things got much better when I learned to use the "Back" button in that right 
frame rather than the browser's "Back" button.

It might get tolerable with an "InfoCenter for Dummies" tutorial.
Is there one?

But:

o I don't know how to search a book or a shelf for a string?  Is
  it possible?  The "Search" windows return either hundreds of
  hits or a few irrelevant hits.

o LOOKAT is sorely absent.  Could this be restored with an index?

-- gil

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