The point is that with Bookie, a search for IDC3009I rc rsn would take you directly to the instance you needed. I had to sort of binary scroll and the sequential page until I found my specific need on page 385. This time
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steve Beaver > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 2:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: > z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > IDC3009I needs to be a manual by itself -- It’s a catch all for anything the > is > VSAM related > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 3:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: > z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > The pdf's are fine for print and general reading. And searching has improved. > UNTIL I want the specific rc/rsn for an IDC3009I which is somewhere > between pages 299 and 573 in the iea3m602.pdf and since almost every > other IDC message references IDC3009I, the search in the pdf is pretty > useless. > > Bookmanager search is still the best. And for what it's worth, I always > download all the books and shelves using Softcopy Librarian. Searching in > Softcopy Librarian used to pass the search into the Bookmanager book and > take you directly to the result. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) > > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:55 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: > > z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > > > Tom - I'm in total agreement with you. I never liked BookManager on > > Windows and I prefer PDF's as I don't need a network connection, I can > > place the one's I need on my iPad for easy access if my PC is down, > > and the advanced search to cross PDF boundaries is excellent. > > > > It works so please don't break it. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > Lionel B. Dyck > > Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA > > Enterprise Operations (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) Information and > > Technology, IT Operations and Services > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Tom Brennan > > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 11:30 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: > > z/OS > > V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > > > 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 > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > > > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
