This may be of interest to some of you. We just published a refresh of “z/OS V2R2 Acrobat Indexed PDF Collection 9/16 Refresh". It is a rather large ZIP file (1063.4 MB -- a high speed connection is recommended). It was created using the standard Windows 7 zip function. Once unzipped, there is a PDF sub-directory that contains an index.html. The html index file lists all the titles of the PDFs on indexed on the collection. The collection also contains an Adobe catalog (.pdx) of the all the z/OS V2R2 PDF on the kit. This lets you perform a full text search across the entire library.
To do a search, use the free acrobat reader (desktop not browser plugin) to open the "zOS V2R2 Acrobat Indexed PDF Collection 3Q16.pdx file found in the PDF sub-directory. The Acrobat Reader will open an advanced search dialog with the full text search catalog already selected. (All Adobe catalog files have ".pdx" extension). The kit includes is an article "How to Search Using Adobe Indexed PDFs” that provides details on how to do a basic search. For more advanced search function, see the help for Adobe Acrobat. The user experience is similar to the way “BookManager” displayed its hits within the context of books. Search for a term and the reader will display a list of books with "+" sign next to each book. Clicking the plus sign reveals the hits with some context found for the terms in that book. The form number is SC27-8430-03 and it is available from the IBM Publications Center. Notes: 1. The collection is listed in the IBM Publications Center as SC27-8430-03, but will unzip to a folder named SC27-8430-04. We are aware of the error and will correct it in future refreshes. The error will not impact using the collection. 2. This collection was tested with the current Adobe Acrobat readers. If you use another PDF reader, it may or may not work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
