Isn't there provision for anchors in the current version of PDF?

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Jerry Callen <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with 
their web content?

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:27:47 -0500, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:

>Even if you have a z/OS 2.1 manual, some PTFs do add features or
>command or document changes to older versions, and they only update
>the newest manual.  Sometimes it is best to get the newer manual then
>check the document changes so you aren't referencing a feature only in
>the newest release.

OK, here's a constructive proposal: there should be a single HTML-based web 
tree that contains the doc for the MOST CURRENT VERSION of z/OS. Each page 
would then have a menu dropdown to allow you to select an earlier release. The 
URLs for the current pages would be kept STABLE, so that links from other pages 
won't go dead when future releases come out.

The web designers would use robots.txt or whatever to keep crawlers out of the 
back level doc, so that only the most current doc is indexed. The when you 
search for "IDCAMS REPRO", you get the hits to the LATEST doc, but can find the 
back-level stuff easily enough.

I agree that the PDFs are valuable (I use them all the time), but it's ALSO 
really handy to be able to embed a link to the EXACT SPOT n the documentation 
that I am referring to, and that requires a URL to a page, not to a PTF.

-- Jerry

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