A year or more ago I went looking for the latest PDF documents for an
Omegamon sub-product (Networks I think?) and couldn't find them. I did
find PDF's for the previous version so I sent an email to one of the
authors and got a response: There were no PDF's for the latest, only
the web-based doc, and if I wanted a PDF I could click buttons on the
web page to grab all the pages and put them into a PDF. That ended up
just like you said, a PDF of relatively unrelated snippets :)
Very odd, and I hope that isn't the way of the future. To me, the
online snippets are useful only if I get lucky and find what I need via
search. But once I'm reading a section, even with the KC next/prev page
clicking (like the left/right arrows which don't seem to work all the
time), I usually give up quickly and just go download something I can
read - the PDF manual.
Plus, with the PDF (even if it's not completely up-to-date) I have
information on my PC without needing an IP connection, which could be
important in a pinch.
Now don't take me too seriously, since I may be a bit unusual because I
never liked Bookmanager on my PC either, something people seem to like a
lot here.
Dana Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:31:11 +0200, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote:
Now, I B M w i l l y o u p l e a s e, p l e a s e n o t a b a n d o n t h i s
"Download books in PDF format" support ever!!! KC has its place but will
never be a replacement for PDFs to be read offline!
My biggest fear is that IBM will continue moving the z/OS documentation in the
direction it has taken with the IBM i docs in the past. The main content in
the Knowledge Center consists of small, one or two paragraph tidbits, filled
with links to other items, making it almost impossible to read in depth about a
topic for a good overview. Then the PDF version is just the same little
snippets from the KC, strung together into a pdf document.
Dana
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