On 04/30/2017 09:32 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > More than a year ago (it may have been 2012, I just can't remember), I > put forth an idea that IBM do a search for its manuals based on their > ID for the manuals, while the user could name that manual from that > point. > > Example: iea2b6a0.pdf might become iea2b6a0_JCL_REF.pdf > > This was immediately slapped down as never gonna happen. > > But, what if IBM were to do this naming? > > Should this be put forth as a Share request/requirement? > > Now, on a Linux system I can create a link to that particular manual > so that it becomes JCL_REF.pdf, but this takes a while to do for each > manual that I'm interested in. But that's me, how many are you > interested in? > > And if one is a Windows user, can one easily do a link? > > Notice, I have these manuals in sub directories by O/S release (yes, I > also do this for VM as well) so that I can find something that I know > is specific to a certain version/release. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > > On 04/29/2017 08:11 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: >> I rename a few of the manuals (the ones I use all the time), but I >> too wish the file names of the manuals were the full manual name. I >> would hate to think about trying to rename hundreds of manuals each >> time, I would go nuts, but I do copy about 20 of them that I really >> care about. >> >> Using the index is great (I rename that too), but it still would be >> nice to have better names on the individual files. >> >> Brian >> > Be careful what you wish for. Reminds me of the old days with a physical hard copy manual library when we tried to use secretarial types for putting new manuals in folders and labeling the folders. We continually had problems finding things because IBM was terrible about using very long, very explicit manual titles like "Multiple Virtual Storage Data Facility Data Set Services (whatever)", which the help dutifully copied. They either ran out of space before they got to the "whatever" that actually differentiated what the manual was about, or there was so much verbiage the useful part was hard to find. We tried making rules about what parts of titles they could omit or replace with acronyms, but having the technical staff keep that list updated and training others how to use it became almost as much work as filing all the manuals ourselves. it was a continual battle until we were finally able to phase out the hard copy library.
IBM could make file names of manual files reflect the formal manual titles, and you could still end up with something difficult to use. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
