AW: Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Peter Hunkeler]

Thanks to Susan's hint about the html file in the indexed collection, it was 
not too hard to create two Windows command files to create books with 
meaningful names. Both create subdirectories by bookshelf. One then moves and 
renames the PDF files (which is what I need for the copy on my iPad), the other 
one leaves all the original files in place, but creates symbolic links in the 
bookshelf subdirectories. One caveat with the later: In its wisdom Microsoft 
decided that you need admin authority to run the mklink command.
Drop me a note if you are interested in a copy.


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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Susan Shumway]

Interesting ideas - I'll pass them all along to the build team for 
consideration.


As for how the PDFs are produced, the product documentation is sourced 
using an XML implementation called DITA. The source is processed into 
PDFs using a proprietary IBM toolkit that uses a plugin to produce 
XSL-FO output, which is then converted to PDF output using Apache FOP. 
There is a DITA Open Toolkit that can be used by anyone to create DITA 
and create a variety of output types (including DITA or HTML).


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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Susan Shumway]

Hi gil,

Thanks for suggesting a link for *.pdx in the index file. I'll pass it 
along and see if the builders have a way to do it.


z/VM Internet Library: http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/

-Sue Shumway

The On 10/16/17 2:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:20:20 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote:


Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book
links.


Symbolic links?  (maybe).

Of course, I know of no OS nowadays that enforces that archaic 8.3 naming 
convention.


Since we realize that the cryptic PDF file names don't mean anything to
most of you, we provide an HTML file within the PDF collection that
lists links to every PDF as extracted to your local system, and the
links are the titles of the PDF. Look for "ZOSV02R03_index.htm" in the
V2R3 Indexed PDF collection.


The better way.  Should work with most browsers.


As for the Acrobat indexed functionality (e.g.
zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx) not working on an iPad, that's as expected -
that particular function of the collection is supported on Windows based
systems only.
  

Works fine on Mac.  I believe the requisite is Adobe reader.

I was disappointed not to find the mention of Documentation.pdx as an
anchor in index.htm.  So I tried making it one in a copy of index.htm
Didn't work.  Some browsers are dumbfounded by it, and I couldn't
fix associations; others try opening it as a page within the browser, but
the description in index.htm says it must be opened only by Adobe
Reader.  Shame on those browsers.  Grrr.


To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the
z/OS Internet Library (
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/ ).


That's the one I'm familiar with.  Is there anything similar for VM?

Thanks,
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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[John McKown]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:07 PM, David W Noon <
013a910fd252-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:48:54 +, Pew, Curtis G
> (curtis@austin.utexas.edu) wrote about "Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3
> Elements and Features" web site?" (in
> <ce19c403-d209-46a5-a362-e93477365...@austin.utexas.edu>):
>
> [snip]
> > At least three of the documents in the z/OS 2.3 collection have blank
> > titles in their PDF information. The problem is not developing a script
> > to create links from the information, the problem is missing information.
>
> More than that, some of the IBM documents have a Title: field with the
> same name as the PDF filename or basename. I'm not sure what type of
> documentation software IBM uses to prepare these, but I guess it isn't
> fussy about the Title: not matching the text on the title page. I expect
> it's an Adobe product for Windows (Distiller?).
>

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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[David W Noon]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:48:54 +, Pew, Curtis G
(curtis@austin.utexas.edu) wrote about "Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3
Elements and Features" web site?" (in
<ce19c403-d209-46a5-a362-e93477365...@austin.utexas.edu>):

[snip]
> At least three of the documents in the z/OS 2.3 collection have blank
> titles in their PDF information. The problem is not developing a script
> to create links from the information, the problem is missing information.

More than that, some of the IBM documents have a Title: field with the
same name as the PDF filename or basename. I'm not sure what type of
documentation software IBM uses to prepare these, but I guess it isn't
fussy about the Title: not matching the text on the title page. I expect
it's an Adobe product for Windows (Distiller?).
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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Pew, Curtis G]

On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:37 PM, David W Noon 
<013a910fd252-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 
> One can avoid the use of sed here. Moreover, we need to do more
> manipulation of the generated filename for the symlink.
> 
>> Yes, please. I tried doing something like this once, but the PDF
>> information sections are inconsistent or incomplete. Everything’s
>> easier to manage when you have consistent, reliable metadata.
> 
> I have attached a shell script for zsh that might do what you want. It
> is another "pretend text" attachment, so rename it with the ,txt suffix
> removed. Also remember to "chmod +x" to make it executable.

At least three of the documents in the z/OS 2.3 collection have blank titles in 
their PDF information. The problem is not developing a script to create links 
from the information, the problem is missing information.

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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[David W Noon]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:17:01 +, Pew, Curtis G
(curtis@austin.utexas.edu) wrote about "Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3
Elements and Features" web site?" (in
<bb96fb07-0d7a-4af6-8bae-ceaec1909...@austin.utexas.edu>):

> On Oct 16, 2017, at 1:39 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
[snip]
>> for i in *.pdf ; do pdfinfo "${i}" | ln -s "${i}" "$(awk '/^Title: / {print
>> substr($0,17);} | sed -r 's/ *.*? *//')" ; done

One can avoid the use of sed here. Moreover, we need to do more
manipulation of the generated filename for the symlink.

> Yes, please. I tried doing something like this once, but the PDF
> information sections are inconsistent or incomplete. Everything’s
> easier to manage when you have consistent, reliable metadata.

I have attached a shell script for zsh that might do what you want. It
is another "pretend text" attachment, so rename it with the ,txt suffix
removed. Also remember to "chmod +x" to make it executable.

Note also that this script will probably not work under Windows, even if
you have zsh installed as a shell. This is because it translates the
forward slashes IBM uses for z/OS, OS/390, OS/400, PL/I, etc. into
backward slashes, because UNIX filesystem drivers use the forward slash
as a directory separator.

I have released it under the Berkeley License, so it is fully open
source. Use at your own risk.
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#!/bin/zsh

# Script to scan PDF documents and add a symlink to those whose
# filename differs from their title fields.

# Copyright (C) 2017, David W Noon.  All rights reserved.
# This code is released under the Berkeley License.

# Set default values.
DOC_DIR="."
let PRETEND_MODE=0
let VERBOSE_MODE=0
# Parse the command line.
while getopts 'pd:hv' OPTNAME
do
case "$OPTNAME" in
p)
let PRETEND_MODE=1
;;

d)
DOC_DIR="$OPTARG"
;;

h)
echo 'Usage:'
echo "\tPDF_symlinks.zsh -h -p -d "
echo ''
echo 'Where:'
echo "\t-p\t\tPretend mode."
echo "\t-d \tDirectory to scan. Default: current 
directory."
echo "\t-h\t\tThis help text."
exit 0
;;

v)
let VERBOSE_MODE=1
;;

*)
echo "Invalid option $OPTNAME"
exit 12
esac
done

# Change directory if it's not current.
[[ "$DOC_DIR" == "." ]] || pushd "$DOC_DIR"

# Loop through all plain files ending in .pdf
for fn in *.pdf(N.)
do
# Extract the Title: field, massage to fit UNIX filename conventions.
sn=$(pdfinfo "${fn}" | gawk '/^Title:/ { s=$2; for(n=3;n<=NF;++n) 
s=s"_"$n; gsub("/","\\",s); print s".pdf"; }')

if [[ -e "$sn" ]]; then
# Skip if name already exists.
[[ $VERBOSE_MODE -eq 1 ]] && echo "$sn already exists."
elif [[ "$sn" != "$fn" ]]; then
if [[ $PRETEND_MODE -eq 0 ]]; then
# Hit the tit!
ln -s "$fn" "$sn"
[[ $? -eq 0 && $VERBOSE_MODE -eq 1 ]] && echo "Symlink 
$sn was created for $fn"
else
echo "Symlink $sn would be added to document $fn"
fi
fi
done

# Revert directory if we changed.
[[ "$DOC_DIR" == "." ]] || popd

exit 0


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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:17:01 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote:

>On Oct 16, 2017, at 1:39 PM, John McKown wrote:
>> 
>> The above is why I love *IX symlinks. What would be _really_ nice, IMO,
>> would be if your PDF generation process placed the ​actual document number
>> & title in the PDF information title section of the pdf file. So that I
>> could get it out of the "pdfinfo" program. It would make generation of the
>> symlinks simple. Something like:
>> 
>> for i in *.pdf ; do pdfinfo "${i}" | ln -s "${i}" "$(awk '/^Title: / {print
>> substr($0,17);} | sed -r 's/ *.*? *//')" ; done
>
>Yes, please. I tried doing something like this once, but the PDF information 
>sections are inconsistent or incomplete. Everything’s easier to manage when 
>you have consistent, reliable metadata.
>
Of course.  In the interim, here's a script that creates the symlinks by
scraping the *index.htm file:

#! /bin/sh -x

# Make symbolic links for anchors in ../*index.htm

# Wholeheartedly empirical.  I tweaked it until it mostly worked.

# Run this in an expendable subdirectory of the doc archive.
ln -s ../pdf .  # Make a symlink to the real PDF directory.

awk '
/td.*href=.pdf.*\.pdf/ {
Target = $0
sub( /.*href=./, "ln -s ", Target )
sub( /. target=.*/, " \\", Target )
print( Target )
next }
/td/ & Target {
L = $0
sub( /.*/, "\"", L )
sub( /<\/td>.*/, "\"", L )
gsub( /\//, "-", L )
print( L )
Target = ""
next }
' ../*index.htm

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AW: Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Peter Hunkeler]

Have you tried on an iPad? Or any other non-Windows, non-Linux tablet? (I know 
Android is Linux based)


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 Von: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> 
An:   IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 
Elements and Features" web site? Datum: 16.10.17, 21:27


On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:55:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:36:56 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
>>>Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book 
>>>links.
>>
>>What is not designed to work cannot become broken, right? There is a world 
>>aside of Windows, and in that sphere I can easily rename the PDSs, in fact is 
>>it the only sensible way on iOS (and probably also on Android) devices.
>>
>Do not the cross-book links work alike inthat "world aside"?  Until you break 
>them by renaming.
>
For verification, I opened that *index.htm file with Firefox in (a 
Debian-derived)
Linux.  I clicked on one of the .pdf links, opening it with Document Viewer.  
There,
I clicked on a cross-reference link, opening that document in another instance
of Document Viewer.  Not everything that works is Windows.

>>Thanks for the pointer to the HTML file. That should get me going.
>>
>>>To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the 
>>>z/OS Internet Library (
>http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/
>
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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Pew, Curtis G]

On Oct 16, 2017, at 1:39 PM, John McKown  wrote:
> 
> The above is why I love *IX symlinks. What would be _really_ nice, IMO,
> would be if your PDF generation process placed the ​actual document number
> & title in the PDF information title section of the pdf file. So that I
> could get it out of the "pdfinfo" program. It would make generation of the
> symlinks simple. Something like:
> 
> for i in *.pdf ; do pdfinfo "${i}" | ln -s "${i}" "$(awk '/^Title: / {print
> substr($0,17);} | sed -r 's/ *.*? *//')" ; done

Yes, please. I tried doing something like this once, but the PDF information 
sections are inconsistent or incomplete. Everything’s easier to manage when you 
have consistent, reliable metadata.

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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Gibney, Dave]

z/OS 2.2 did show up as a Source for the Softgcopy Librarian and IBM Boulder. 
Will z/OS 2.3 ever be there?

> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Susan Shumway
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 11:20 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?
> 
> Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book
> links.
> 
> Since we realize that the cryptic PDF file names don't mean anything to most
> of you, we provide an HTML file within the PDF collection that lists links to
> every PDF as extracted to your local system, and the links are the titles of 
> the
> PDF. Look for "ZOSV02R03_index.htm" in the
> V2R3 Indexed PDF collection.
> 
> As for the Acrobat indexed functionality (e.g.
> zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx) not working on an iPad, that's as expected -
> that particular function of the collection is supported on Windows based
> systems only.
> 
> To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the z/OS
> Internet Library ( https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-
> 3A__www.ibm.com_systems_z_os_zos_library_bkserv_=DwICaQ=C3y
> me8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-
> Je7sw=u9g8rUevBoyCPAdo5sWE9w=WtCPVJStnUX3Old-
> dX3jjGA7J8wjnQug_t3e00KNk0k=bUM1fQq9Mfob4GyqnhKqaCi1I7mmuk2
> wVSkPkA33cFA= ).
> 
> -Sue
> 
> 
> On 10/15/17 10:53 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> >
> > Why does one recognize typos only at the very moment "send" button has
> been released? Title should say V2R3, not V2R2.
> >
> > The ZIP file with the indexed z/OS PDFs is surely useful, but only on a
> platform supporting the index file. My iPad is not one of them. So what I get 
> is
> a bunch of PDF files with rather meaningless 8 character names.
> >
> > I used to create a download script from the "z/OS VvRrElements and
> Features" web page, and that allowed automatic renaming to the book title.
> >
> > It seems this site is not provided for V2R3. At least I was not able to 
> > find it
> so far. Would anyone know if it will be available?
> >
> 
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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:55:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:36:56 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
>>>Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book 
>>>links.
>>
>>What is not designed to work cannot become broken, right? There is a world 
>>aside of Windows, and in that sphere I can easily rename the PDSs, in fact is 
>>it the only sensible way on iOS (and probably also on Android) devices.
>>
>Do not the cross-book links work alike inthat "world aside"?  Until you break 
>them by renaming.
> 
For verification, I opened that *index.htm file with Firefox in (a 
Debian-derived)
Linux.  I clicked on one of the .pdf links, opening it with Document Viewer.  
There,
I clicked on a cross-reference link, opening that document in another instance
of Document Viewer.  Not everything that works is Windows.

>>Thanks for the pointer to the HTML file. That should get me going.
>>
>>>To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the 
>>>z/OS Internet Library (
>http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/
>
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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:36:56 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote:

>
>>Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book 
>>links.
>
>
>What is not designed to work cannot become broken, right? There is a world 
>aside of Windows, and in that sphere I can easily rename the PDSs, in fact is 
>it the only sensible way on iOS (and probably also on Android) devices.
>
Do not the cross-book links work alike inthat "world aside"?  Until you break 
them by renaming.

>Thanks for the pointer to the HTML file. That should get me going.
>
>>To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the z/OS 
>>Internet Library (
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/

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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:20:20 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote:

>Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book
>links.
>
Symbolic links?  (maybe).

Of course, I know of no OS nowadays that enforces that archaic 8.3 naming 
convention.

>Since we realize that the cryptic PDF file names don't mean anything to
>most of you, we provide an HTML file within the PDF collection that
>lists links to every PDF as extracted to your local system, and the
>links are the titles of the PDF. Look for "ZOSV02R03_index.htm" in the
>V2R3 Indexed PDF collection.
>
The better way.  Should work with most browsers.

>As for the Acrobat indexed functionality (e.g.
>zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx) not working on an iPad, that's as expected -
>that particular function of the collection is supported on Windows based
>systems only.
>  
Works fine on Mac.  I believe the requisite is Adobe reader.

I was disappointed not to find the mention of Documentation.pdx as an
anchor in index.htm.  So I tried making it one in a copy of index.htm
Didn't work.  Some browsers are dumbfounded by it, and I couldn't
fix associations; others try opening it as a page within the browser, but
the description in index.htm says it must be opened only by Adobe
Reader.  Shame on those browsers.  Grrr.

>To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the
>z/OS Internet Library (
>http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/ ).
> 
That's the one I'm familiar with.  Is there anything similar for VM?

Thanks,
gil

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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[John McKown]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Susan Shumway  wrote:

> Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book
> links.
>
> Since we realize that the cryptic PDF file names don't mean anything to
> most of you, we provide an HTML file within the PDF collection that lists
> links to every PDF as extracted to your local system, and the links are the
> titles of the PDF. Look for "ZOSV02R03_index.htm" in the V2R3 Indexed PDF
> collection.
>
> As for the Acrobat indexed functionality (e.g. zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx)
> not working on an iPad, that's as expected - that particular function of
> the collection is supported on Windows based systems only.
>
> To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the
> z/OS Internet Library ( http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/o
> s/zos/library/bkserv/ ).
>
> -Sue
>


​The above is why I love *IX symlinks. What would be _really_ nice, IMO,
would be if your PDF generation process placed the ​actual document number
& title in the PDF information title section of the pdf file. So that I
could get it out of the "pdfinfo" program. It would make generation of the
symlinks simple. Something like:

for i in *.pdf ; do pdfinfo "${i}" | ln -s "${i}" "$(awk '/^Title: / {print
substr($0,17);} | sed -r 's/ *.*? *//')" ; done

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AW: Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Peter Hunkeler]

>Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book
links.


What is not designed to work cannot become broken, right? There is a world 
aside of Windows, and in that sphere I can easily rename the PDSs, in fact is 
it the only sensible way on iOS (and probably also on Android) devices.
Thanks for the pointer to the HTML file. That should get me going.


>To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the z/OS 
>Internet Library (
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/ ).



Quickly? Ha, ha, ROTFLOL. Would you be able to see how tremendously slow 
Internet access from our office environment is, you would understand why I aim 
for offline availability.


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Re: Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Susan Shumway]

Please don't rename your downloaded PDFs! Doing so breaks the cross-book 
links.


Since we realize that the cryptic PDF file names don't mean anything to 
most of you, we provide an HTML file within the PDF collection that 
lists links to every PDF as extracted to your local system, and the 
links are the titles of the PDF. Look for "ZOSV02R03_index.htm" in the 
V2R3 Indexed PDF collection.


As for the Acrobat indexed functionality (e.g. 
zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx) not working on an iPad, that's as expected - 
that particular function of the collection is supported on Windows based 
systems only.


To quickly find whatever z/OS content that you need, always start at the 
z/OS Internet Library ( 
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/ ).


-Sue


On 10/15/17 10:53 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
  
Why does one recognize typos only at the very moment "send" button has been released? Title should say V2R3, not V2R2.


The ZIP file with the indexed z/OS PDFs is surely useful, but only on a 
platform supporting the index file. My iPad is not one of them. So what I get 
is a bunch of PDF files with rather meaningless 8 character names.

I used to create a download script from the "z/OS VvRrElements and Features" 
web page, and that allowed automatic renaming to the book title.

It seems this site is not provided for V2R3. At least I was not able to find it 
so far. Would anyone know if it will be available?



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IBM Poughkeepsie
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Where is the "z/OS V2R3 Elements and Features" web site?

[Peter Hunkeler]

Why does one recognize typos only at the very moment "send" button has been 
released? Title should say V2R3, not V2R2.

The ZIP file with the indexed z/OS PDFs is surely useful, but only on a 
platform supporting the index file. My iPad is not one of them. So what I get 
is a bunch of PDF files with rather meaningless 8 character names.

I used to create a download script from the "z/OS VvRrElements and Features" 
web page, and that allowed automatic renaming to the book title.

It seems this site is not provided for V2R3. At least I was not able to find it 
so far. Would anyone know if it will be available?

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