Hi Susan,

     Thank you!  It may not be said often enough, but  I appreciate that 
someone from IBM is following this thread.

BobL

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Susan Shumway
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 2:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals? [ 
EXTERNAL ]

When I mentioned the outdated text to the page owner, I suggested that he also 
replace the links to the zips themselves with these links to the zip download 
pages. Now that I know that the existing links point to outdated zips, I'll 
more than suggest it. Sorry for the runaround.

On 09/28/16 1:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> It's not merely cosmetic.  When I was having problems opening the 
> index, I downloaded again; verified checksums; extracted with Info-Zip 
> then again with 7-Zip.  Did "diff -sur".  Identical.  Then I noticed 
> that the timestamps on tne extracted files were all 2015 or earlier.  Oops.
> Only then did I inspect the page closely.
>
> I believe any files beginning "SK..." are outdated.  The current ones 
> seem to begin with "SC...".  I downloaded from your other "indexed"
> link.  Much, much better.
>
> I followed the caution I read somewhere not to open the index with a 
> browser's built in viewer, but to use Adobe Reader instead.  That 
> works, but not on the 2015 instance.
>
> Once I get the right archive it seems to work very nicely.


--
Sue Shumway
z/OS Product Documentation Lead
IBM Poughkeepsie
[email protected]

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