Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 04/13/2012 at 10:16 AM, "McKown, John" said: >I do like the PDFs. I have all the CICS and z/OS system PDFs >downloaded to my PC and on my Kindle DX. I don't like reading them >on my PC due to the PDFs being designed to be read on a device in >portrait orientation. The monitor on my P

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1BA00CBB414DA34AA25ED82F4647CDE20621604B42@MAIL02.fisalan.nycnet>, on 04/12/2012 at 10:05 AM, "Sevetson, Phil" said: >Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, Really? Is it magic? Because if it isn't magic then it doesn't address the issue. NTW, you might ask those who prefer Book

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-17 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
... I don't know about FTPS or SFTP (variant of ssh). Can someone suggest a publicly accessible site(s) I can experiment with? testcase.boulder.ibm.com supports FTPS. Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development -- For IBM-MAI

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:34:55 -0600, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: >Yup - absolutely agree with Mary Anne. Base FTP has been disabled in this shop >for years on the Mainframe. Only FTPS is accepted. Outgoing FTP has to be >justified to all and sundry why we cannot use a secure method. > I believe my e

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-16 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Art Gutowski Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) O

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Art Gutowski
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:40:30 -0500, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: >>In the fourth quarter of 2012, IBM plans to make secure delivery via FTP using >>Secure Sockets Layer (FTPS) an option for Internet delivery of ServerPac, >>CBPDO, SystemPac®, FunctionPac, ProductPac®, and Internet delivery of >>PTFs

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:44:45 -0500, Jonathan Goossen wrote: >I find both PDF and Info Center easily navigable. > > > >IMO it is a matter of what we get use to. Perhaps it is a matter of what we are used to. Earlier today, someone asked me a question about LARGEDS support for JES2 SPOOL and I d

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread McKown, John
Company.SM > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Goossen > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:45 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) > > I fi

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Jonathan Goossen
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Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Scott Ford
ational Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin >> Sent: Thursday, April 12,

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:50:01 -0500, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: >On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:05:37 -0400, Sevetson, Phil >wrote: > >>Bookreader? Really?? >YES. > >>Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, where you can get good >>documentation from what IBM calls their "website." ... PDF and Inf

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-13 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:05:37 -0400, Sevetson, Phil wrote: >Bookreader? Really?? YES. >Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, where you can get good >documentation from what IBM calls their "website." ... PDF and Info Center (I >much prefer the former, frankly)... fully searchable...

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread McKown, John
mpany of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:04 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subj

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:01:57 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >I use SoftCopy librarian to download / manage PDF bookshelves (per my last >post - for example, Tivoli since >bookmanager format is not available). > Is it ecumenical, or does it require a particular OS? -- gil --

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:27 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >At least I would like the BOOKFIND command with its cursor sensitive arguments >to keep working. > >Do you really need the BOO format? Will a PDF reader with good searchable >index and BOOKFIND PDF support do too? > Too much bandw

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-04-12 17:20, McKown, John pisze: We pdf files on a Windows share. The only problem with this is in a D.R. situation, because that share is deemed "non critical" and not restored during a test. Which is why I need BookManager. At our DR provider, the PC's used to connect to z/OS are no

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alvaro Guirao Lopez > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:04 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: R

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
>This is very good news. Curious. How so? Art, we don't need to go through explaining why we're not using FTP, getting a waiver for using it, etc with the isso's and auditors, every time our lpars are scanned. MA -- For IBM-

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread McKown, John
Insurance Company.SM > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alvaro Guirao Lopez > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:04 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announ

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
In a client where I work a few years ago, we send the pdf manuals received for each product version or z/OS to USS under html and access via web to our "hosting" LPAR. 2012/4/12 Mark Zelden > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:08:07 +, Bob Shannon < > bshan...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote: > > >> Bookreade

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:35:30 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >How do you download all those bookshelves and indexes in one swift swoop like >I do with 'Soft Copy Librarian'? And then search here on your local PC or >shared network folder? I use SoftCopy librarian to download / manage PDF

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:08:07 +, Bob Shannon wrote: >> Bookreader? Really?? > >Like a number of other people, I prefer PDF when printing and Bookmanager when >searching. The elimination of Bookmanager is unfortunate but not surprising. > Ditto. I keep bookmanager manuals on the lan for eve

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Sevetson, Phil wrote: >Bookreader? Really?? >Guys, there's this thing they call the Internet, where you can get good >documentation from what IBM calls their "website." ... PDF and Info Center (I >much prefer the former, frankly)... fully searchable... How do you download all those bookshelves

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
; > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > > Of Jan MOEYERSONS > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:50 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announ

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:12 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.e

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread McKown, John
half Of R.S. > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) > > I will fight for BOO format. > Where to demonstrate? Any riot? > > Really outraged > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland >

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread McKown, John
the former, > frankly)... fully searchable... > > --Phil Sevetson, recovering Bookmanager addict > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:50 AM &g

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Sevetson, Phil
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) > Bookreader? Really?? Like a number of other people, I prefer PDF when printing and Bookmanager when searching. The eliminat

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread R.S.
pril 12, 2012 6:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:14:43 +0200, R.S. wrote: Documentation in Bookreader format will no longer be available! That's horrible! Indeed, it is. Should we not make it a requirement (Sh

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Bob Shannon
> Bookreader? Really?? Like a number of other people, I prefer PDF when printing and Bookmanager when searching. The elimination of Bookmanager is unfortunate but not surprising. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Sevetson, Phil
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment) On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:14:43 +0200, R.S. wrote: &g

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Art Gutowski
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:14:28 -0500, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: >There's also some info about secure FTP: > >In the fourth quarter of 2012, IBM plans to make secure delivery via FTP using >Secure Sockets Layer (FTPS) an option for Internet delivery of ServerPac, >CBPDO, SystemPac®, FunctionPac, Prod

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-12 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:14:43 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Documentation in Bookreader format will no longer be available! >That's horrible! Indeed, it is. Should we not make it a requirement (Share or otherwise) to have documentation in Bookreader format? Cheers, Jantje. ---

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-11 Thread R.S.
Documentation in Bookreader format will no longer be available! That's horrible! -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeni

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-11 Thread Ken Porowski
il address. -- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alvaro Guirao Lopez Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS every two years (Official a

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-11 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
There's also some info about secure FTP: In the fourth quarter of 2012, IBM plans to make secure delivery via FTP using Secure Sockets Layer (FTPS) an option for Internet delivery of ServerPac, CBPDO, SystemPac®, FunctionPac, ProductPac®, and Internet delivery of PTFs ordered using ShopzSeries an

z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

2012-04-11 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
Well, Finally IBM has released the official announcement about releasing z/OS every two years: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternum=ENUSZP12-0025 Also, the next z/OS version, released in the second half of 2013, will be z