Using the PoP, with its two column format as a single example of "bookie" can't be useful is just wrong.
Bookmanager format was (is) very good for searching, and for reading parts sequentially. Especially searching. Doing a search from the Shelf organizer passed the search on into bookie and took you right to it. And let's not even think about the return to pain .PDF is for Idc3009 rc nn > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 2:42 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"? > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:45:02 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> > >> And I will once again reiterate the futile request to have > >> Bookmanager format be returned to service :) > > > >Or to have Bookmanager format open sourced...? Seriously, what's in it > >for IBM to sit on a data format it no longer uses or supports? Surely > >others would take it and run with it. > > > Would there be sufficient community interest to maintain it? On what > variety of platforms? PDF and HTML readers, in contrast, seem to support > themselves. > > They'd need also to open source the content. > > Some years ago, the PoOps outgrew the capacity of Bookie. What > refracturing would be necessary to extend that capacity? I suspect IBM > investigated and shied away. > > It's irritating to find a manual split, like Assembler Services, at an > arbitrary > point in the alphabet merely to conform to processor capacity. > > Long ago, we compared prices of Bookie reader for Solaris(?), XA(?), PC. The > difference exceeded the cost of the PC. Easy business decision. > > --gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
