On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:12:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>I am told with some authority that it ain't gonna happen.
>
But, nonetheless, thanks to Susan for her attention and efforts here.
>I guess the problem it solves is this:
>
>IBM rightly or wrongly but at least plausibly believes that for the "new"
>platforms the doc must be Web-accessible, readable on a mobile, etc., etc. And
>IBM does not want to do documentation two different ways, Web for "them" and
>BookManager or PDF for "us." The mainframe is something of a niche platform to
>many and therefore it is the tail that the new-platform doc format is wagging.
>
Some whiles back, Marna pointed us to PDF collections around:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/
This seems to have been refreshed within the last few days. At least the URLs
have changed.
But it still says "4Q2016 update of z/OS V2R2 product documentation now
available", as
earlier. I'll DL and check.
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:38:22 -0500, Susan Shumway wrote:
>Can you help me better understand exactly what experience you expect
>regarding documentation for HLASM and other such products? Right now, we
>do list it in our TOC and provide a direct link to the product
>documentation from that page (
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.asm/asm.htm
>).
A few minutes ago, that link on the z/OS 2.1 ToC took me to a page with
a list of publications that appears usable. The corresponding link on the
2.2 ToC takes me to a page that invites me to select a HLASM version
from a dropdown list. I can't find a dropdown list.
>... Or, to satisfy that request, are you
>instead expecting to see the HLASM content somehow mirrored in the z/OS KC?
>
A well-behaved link should be as satisfactory as a mirror, and less at hazard
for rot.
>(BTW, Gil, you'll notice that I added extra spaces around the URL
>above... I do that for other punctuation but didn't realize I needed to
>for parens, as well. Thanks for the tip!)
>
You're welcome. This is dismayingly viewer-sensitive. Firefox strangles
on the ")". Mail.app (and perhaps other browsers) discard it.
Thanks again,
gil
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