On 5 December 2016 at 18:32, Susan Shumway <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some > Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the > (still improving) KC search function. These are from a NaSPA deck I helped > present early last year... > Um, these all seem to be KC search tricks - not Google ones. Not that they aren't useful - they are. Though I wish search providers could get their acts together wrt syntax. > Each book in the z/OS library is assigned a unique identifier, which is > included in its URL. For example, book identifier e0zm100 corresponds to > z/OS Migration. You can use the inurl search operator and the book's > identifier to narrow the search results to a specific book. (The list of > book identifiers is included in the presentation but is WAY too long to > include here. Let me know if you're interested and I'll see if it's still > online anywhere.) > Example: "dynamic vipa" | dvipa intitle:introduction | intitle:overview > inurl:halz002 > I don't know anyone who thinks of the books in terms of this kind of "book identifier". In fact I'm not sure I've even heard that term before. I think of the identifiers like halz002 as a file name, but to me this book is SC27-3650. Actually, I realize now that I really don't know what halz002 is. I was thinking of the file names when I install the books locally, but this book's name in that context is f1a2b300. So I think we already have identifiers enough to go around... > - Finds topics in the "z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration > Guide" book that contain the phrase dynamic VIPA OR the word DVIPA anywhere > in the text AND that contain the word introduction or the word overview in > the title. > Tip: Book identifiers are also helpful during basic searching. If you > hover over a topic title link in the search results, the displayed URL will > contain the identifier of the containing book. > Susan, perhaps you could explain the relationship of these three identifiers for the same book? (I realize that SC27-3650 needs a dash number to be complete, and the other two may include the version. But still, why three?) And a little glitch while I'm looking at halz002: I'm on the page with URL https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halz002/toc.htm and I see the TOC for the IP Configuration Guide. Towards the upper left there is a little pulldown with choices "Version 2.1.0" and "Version 2.2.0". If I click the 2.2.0 choice, I get sent to URL https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.halz001/toc.htm which is for a different book (the Config Reference). Surely these aren't kept up to date by hand...? Thanks... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
