Re: Knowledge Center C/C++ RTL Unicode

2016-08-01 Thread Susan Shumway
On 07/30/16 2:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: From: z/OS z/OS 2.2.0 z/OS XL C/C++ z/OS XL C/C++ Runtime Library Reference Library functions iconv() - Code conversion Example CELEBI01 I tried to copy, paste and compile the sample code. Didn't work. Every character that

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-12 Thread Susan Shumway
Strange! Well, good to know that it's merely buggy, not completely busted. There's hope yet! On 07/12/16 11:52 AM, Styles, Andy , SD EP zPlatform wrote: Funny - this week, the icon has magically appeared :-) Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer -- Sue Shumway z/OS Product Documentation

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

2016-07-08 Thread Susan Shumway
Good to know, Peter. Thank you and noted. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: KC!? Susan Shumway?

2017-02-17 Thread Susan Shumway
that you like so much is useless in this case, but at least you can successfully enjoy it with most other elements! On 02/16/17 2:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:30:00 -0500, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi Paul(Gil?), That's great to hear that KC works on Midori! It's always nice

Re: KC!? Susan Shumway?

2017-02-21 Thread Susan Shumway
h that -- here, let me transfer you." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: KC!? Susan Shumway? On 2017-02-18,

Re: KC!? Susan Shumway?

2017-02-10 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Paul(Gil?), That's great to hear that KC works on Midori! It's always nice to have a surprise that's pleasant every once in a while... Regarding your wishes: > o That ToC sidebar should have resize handles, vertically so I can see more > lines at once, and horizontally so I can see

Re: IBM z/OS PDF Documents - Page Can't Be Displayed

2016-08-15 Thread Susan Shumway
Unfortunately, the publibz.boulder.ibm.com server is down at the moment. They're working on it and should have it back up and running soon. In the meantime, use the publibfp.dhe.ibm.com server to access PDFs. For example, for the Intro and Release Guide, go to

Re: Request for Knowledge Center to search within book.

2016-08-22 Thread Susan Shumway
That URL doesn't work for me. Regardless, for searching within books, check out the experimental Search Scope Catalog and let me know what you think: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2/zos-search/zossearchscopes.html On 08/19/16 11:44 AM, Mike Schwab wrote:

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-29 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, Tom. I put a discussion about this on our build team agenda and added your comments. I suspect that we're somewhat restricted by tooling and repository rules, but we'll see what we can do. On 09/29/16 10:34 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:17:04 -0400, Susan Shumway

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-29 Thread Susan Shumway
You're welcome, Bob! I'm glad to hear that my involvement helps. =) On 09/28/16 5:18 PM, Lester, Bob wrote: Hi Susan, Thank you! It may not be said often enough, but I appreciate that someone from IBM is following this thread. BobL -- Sue Shumway z/OS Product Documentation Lead IBM

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread Susan Shumway
The link works for me, so perhaps it's a stepped solution to an outage. I'll forward this to the Redbooks team just so they know that some folks are still having access problems. On 09/29/16 9:57 AM, George Rodriguez wrote: It still doesn't work for me either.​ *George Rodriguez*

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread Susan Shumway
Handy site! It now says "It's just you. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com is up." The Redbooks team had told me that they were working a network problem, so it's apparently now completely fixed. On 09/29/16 12:37 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Remember you can check a site with this URL

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-21 Thread Susan Shumway
I just received notice that the rebuilt kit is now available for download on IBM Pubs Center: https://www.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US=SRX=SK4t-4949 . One of us will post when the other, indexed PDF collection of 3Q16 drafts is posted, in case you prefer

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-21 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for verifying! And no worries about the ado. We'd obviously rather know when things are broken so we can fix them quickly (if possible), and the tangential comments are always interesting. ;-) On 09/21/16 11:12 AM, John Laubenheimer wrote: I downloaded this morning. Looks great! Sorry

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-19 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for the notice. I'm downloading the file now and will discuss with our build team. I'll report back later. On 09/17/16 6:01 PM, John Laubenheimer wrote: The September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals was loaded onto the IBM Publications Center website this week. Upon trying to open

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-20 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, all, for the further enlightening input. As you can see from Kevin's response clipped below, something nefarious did indeed befall the 4949 zip package somewhere along the way. He's investigating and will get it resolved as soon as possible. In the meantime, the zip of indexed PDFs

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-28 Thread Susan Shumway
SK4T-4949 is a simple zip of all the PDFs. SC27-8430 is the same set of PDFs but with the addition of the Acrobat index. Production of SC27-8430 is still in the early stages, which is why both collections are still offered, but it will likely eventually replace SK4T-4949. What benefits do you

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-28 Thread Susan Shumway
When I mentioned the outdated text to the page owner, I suggested that he also replace the links to the zips themselves with these links to the zip download pages. Now that I know that the existing links point to outdated zips, I'll more than suggest it. Sorry for the runaround. On 09/28/16

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-28 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, Gil. I was checking the links and didn't even notice that the text on that page says December 2015. I'll alert the page owner to update the wording. On 09/27/16 10:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:38:03 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: Thanks, Elardus. Yes

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

2016-09-27 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, Elardus. Yes, the refreshed zips are available. Useful links: z/OS Internet Library (hub that links to all formats and repositories for the z/OS documentation: KC, experimental search catalog, individual PDFs, zip of regular PDFs, zip of indexed PDFs):

Re: zOS V2.1 Knowledge Center link points to V1.13

2016-11-14 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, Peter. I notified the page owner, so the link should be fixed ASAP. On 11/14/16 12:31 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Thanks Lizette, I missed the pulldown. Someone from IBM really needs to fix that link though. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: pdf manuals cannot be accessed

2016-12-13 Thread Susan Shumway
Yes, indeed, both http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/ seem to be down. I'm sure the necessary folks already know about it and are working on getting them back up and running. Use KC in the meantime for the z doc. If you're desperate for a particular Redbook/etc.,

Re: IBM doc page - down or dead?

2016-11-30 Thread Susan Shumway
I believe that there was previously a redirect for the URLs without "/library". If there was, it apparently broke. If there wasn't, we obviously need one now! Please update all your bookmarks to the current "www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/" format, and I'll investigate the

Re: IBM doc page - down or dead?

2016-11-30 Thread Susan Shumway
Redirected! (It's a good idea to still update your bookmarks, though.) On 11/30/16 11:32 AM, Susan Shumway wrote: I believe that there was previously a redirect for the URLs without "/library". If there was, it apparently broke. If there wasn't, we obviously need one now! Please updat

Re: LOOKAT gone?

2016-12-05 Thread Susan Shumway
xcept tn3270. And there's Chicago Soft's Kwik-E-Ref (whatever) for $. And John McKown lately pondered interfacing curl to ISPF Edit. I just tried it. It works, sorta, on simple things such as cbttape.org. I'm not much moved to try it on KC. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ Where did we

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

2016-12-05 Thread Susan Shumway
This is actually very valuable feedback - thanks! I forwarded it on to the Doc Buddy team. (I did happen to also see your snark apology, so I paraphrased your comments. ;-) ) Here's what I sent. If there's anything any of you want added to it, let me know... A customer recently posted some

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

2016-12-05 Thread Susan Shumway
app. From what I've heard, they've very responsive. Please email this (excellent) additional feedback directly to them so you're not stuck with a middlewoman. -Sue Shumway On 12/05/16 9:03 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 5 December 2016 at 17:35, Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com> wrote: This

Re: LOOKAT gone?

2016-12-05 Thread Susan Shumway
Answered in sequence... On 12/05/16 7:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 5 December 2016 at 18:32, Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com> wrote: I don't know about scripted access to KC search, but I can offer up some Google search tricks for those of you that prefer that method over the

Re: Knowledge Center

2017-01-03 Thread Susan Shumway
< 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:00:07 -0500, Susan Shumway wrote: Yeah, it's a bit buggy, especially on IE. Per a July thread, the icon is apparently still there, just microscopic or invisible (such that knowing where it should be and hovering your

Re: Knowledge Center

2017-01-02 Thread Susan Shumway
Yeah, it's a bit buggy, especially on IE. Per a July thread, the icon is apparently still there, just microscopic or invisible (such that knowing where it should be and hovering your mouse around should find a clickable spot). Do as Jack suggests or try a different browser. On 12/28/16 7:59

Re: z/OS v2r2 1Q17 PDF collection

2017-04-03 Thread Susan Shumway
Public thanks, Paul. All: I responded to an email copy of this post, which apparently kicked off an email-only conversation that excludes the rest of you. Sorry about that. Basically, Paul is providing feedback on how best to format index.html, and it's okay if unzip doesn't work since most

Re: New March z/OS 2.2 Collection Index bad

2017-04-03 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for the alert, Lionel. I launched zosv2r2_1q17_index.pdx, and it worked for my tests. How is it 'bad' for you? Have you been able to successfully use previous index files? Do you have the full Acrobat Reader installed? Yours truly, Sue Shumway On 04/02/17 1:03 AM, Edward Finnell

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: New March z/OS 2.2 Collection Index bad

2017-04-04 Thread Susan Shumway
Operations (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) Information and Technology, IT Operations and Services -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Shumway Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 10:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL

Re: AW: Re: IBM KC - How to search *within* a book? And where are the PDFs

2017-03-02 Thread Susan Shumway
It's completely doable in KC. I recently tweeted about the tried-and-true but hacky "inurl" method ( https://twitter.com/susan_shumway/status/831199775500488704 ), but also check out the more formal Search Scope Catalog experiment (

Re: PDF Refresh. Close, but no cigar.

2017-03-02 Thread Susan Shumway
7 12:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:39:18 -0500, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi gil. I've never seen this problem and so downloaded the published zip to test specifically. I still can't recreate the error. I definitely see the PDF vs. pdf directory naming issue, but it hasn't broken anyth

Re: PDF Refresh. Close, but no cigar.

2017-03-02 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi gil. I've never seen this problem and so downloaded the published zip to test specifically. I still can't recreate the error. I definitely see the PDF vs. pdf directory naming issue, but it hasn't broken anything for me yet. What was your exact search and which hit did you click on?

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

2017-04-06 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks much for checking again and reporting, Lionel (and for double-checking and reporting, Paul). While that stinks that you initially had trouble, I'm glad that it ended up an isolated, temporary incident. Yours truly, Sue Shumway On 04/06/17 2:00 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. , TRA wrote: The

Re: IBM Knowledge Center

2017-07-06 Thread Susan Shumway
The "MVS System Commands" KC plug-in is back up: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieag100/toc.htm Thanks again for the notice! -Sue Shumway On 07/05/17 1:13 PM, Susan Shumway wrote: H... it looks like the whole "MVS System

Re: IBM Knowledge Center

2017-07-05 Thread Susan Shumway
H... it looks like the whole "MVS System Commands" plug-in is broken. I'll talk with the build team and get it resolved ASAP. In the meantime, here's the latest (December 2016) PDF: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/iea3g114.pdf -Sue Shumway On 07/05/17 10:30 AM, Vernooij, Kees -

Re: KC Authentication failed

2017-04-24 Thread Susan Shumway
Tom, are you still having trouble? I'm able to access https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.iea/iea.htm and all Init Ref links on it. If you still can't, I'll try to figure out why you're getting an authentication error for an open site... Yours truly, Sue

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017

2017-04-28 Thread Susan Shumway
Great feedback, Peter and everybody else - thank you! While you might not see direct results from it, I'm tracking it all and will wield it when I can. Thanks also to everybody who already volunteered to let us bounce ideas off of you - we'll be in touch. One clarification: KC4z IS an offline

Re: KC Authentication failed

2017-04-25 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Tom, I'm glad you're back up and running. Thanks for the feedback re: general IBM site 'walkabouts' and the z/OS Internet Library - I'll pass it along as usual. Yours truly, Sue Shumway On 04/24/17 10:25 PM, Tom Conley wrote: On 4/24/2017 3:43 PM, Susan Shumway wrote: Tom, are you

Re: AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017

2017-04-27 Thread Susan Shumway
Just FYI, I'm following these threads and absorbing it all. To the direct point, it seems like the Adobe Indexed set of element and feature PDFs (SC27-8430) that Kevin Minerley mentioned in his response should suffice, and perhaps even impress, for those of you wanting a single downloadable

Re: 2Q2017 z/OS PDFs

2017-06-24 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi gil, Thanks for the feedback! Two questions (for you and/or anybody): - Do you like that all issues of Hot Topics are included, or should we remove them going forward to reduce the zip file size? Note that, since Hot Topics is going digital starting next month, there are no more new

Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative

2017-09-21 Thread Susan Shumway
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Shumway Sent: September-20-17 6:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative Wow, that was more entertaining than a screaming goat video! Good idea re

Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative

2017-09-21 Thread Susan Shumway
Update: The coders already know about and are working on the issue, so it should be fixed soon. -Sue Shumway On 09/21/17 11:29 AM, Susan Shumway wrote: Thanks, Chris. I notified the coders just in case it's something that they can tweak on the KC end. -Sue Shumway On 09/20/17 12:53 PM

Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative

2017-09-20 Thread Susan Shumway
Wow, that was more entertaining than a screaming goat video! Good idea re: the potential culprit. Let me know if it happens again and I'll alert the coders. -Sue Shumway On 09/20/17 7:25 AM, Ambros, Thomas wrote: Could be worse. You could be dealing with another vendor's support site that

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

2017-10-16 Thread 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

Re: Doc online (was: whois.ibm.com - gone)

2017-10-11 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for supporting the indexed PDF collection, Gil. I personally reference it regularly and agree that it's really useful. Tony, I suspect you're referring to the ability to download the containing PDF from any KC topic. Since that functionality doesn't exist right now, the closest

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

2017-10-18 Thread 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

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

2017-10-18 Thread 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

Re: Rant

2018-05-04 Thread Susan Shumway
You're hired, Elardus! ;-) Vignesh (and everybody else), Elardus's recommendation to start at the z/OS Internet Library ( http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary ) is spot-on and what I tell people myself. From there, you can access all the different

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-05-10 Thread Susan Shumway
t) This email originated from outside of the organization. Yep, that's exactly what I'm looking for, z/OS Plus IMS, DB2, I know I have CICS, and CICS/FA loaded, but I'd like to have Omegamon, CDC (Infosphere).to name a few. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Susan Shu

Re: Rant

2018-05-08 Thread Susan Shumway
are all the 'other' books I'd like to load, DB2, MQ, IMS...to name a few? those KC books do not appear in any selection, .Boo or .PDF format for me to download. what am I missing? Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Susan Shumway" <chale...@us.ibm.com&

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-05-08 Thread Susan Shumway
ation from the other products. -Sue Shumway On 05/07/18 4:22 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Susan Shumway wrote: You're hired, Elardus! ;-) Thanks for your nice compliment, I am humbled by your comments. Ok, but I am way too expensive - starting at $1 million per second, can you afford that

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-05-08 Thread Susan Shumway
for z/OS, but it doesn't help for separate products like DB2, IMS, etc. -Sue Shumway On 05/08/18 11:20 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3IndexFile On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com> wrote: Hi E

Re: Rant

2018-05-08 Thread Susan Shumway
- From: "Susan Shumway" <chale...@us.ibm.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 9:45:22 AM Subject: Re: Rant Hi Carmen, Unfortunately, many products that run on z/OS still don't produce KC4z formatted deliverables. The different teams that own the content m

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-05-15 Thread Susan Shumway
wrote: On 05/08/2018 10:57 AM, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi Elardus, Wow, you're even more expensive than my babysitter! Never mind. ;-) I completely agree that it would be nice if all products that run on z/OS could provide content in the same downloadable format and that it's all easy to find

Return of the IBM z/OS Search Scope Catalog!

2018-05-22 Thread Susan Shumway
Because of a change to the way that IBM Knowledge Center indexes content, the original IBM z/OS Search Scope Catalog needed tweaking and was down for a little while. But, it's now back and better than ever! Find it at

Re: z/OS 2.3 - sftp

2018-05-23 Thread Susan Shumway
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.foto100/sftp.htm -Sue Shumway On 05/23/18 11:48 AM, Mark Pace wrote: Can someone tell me where the sftp command is documented in z/OS 2.3? I've looked in the 8 Unix System Services manuals. -- Sue Shumway z/OS

Re: Where is the WLM website???

2018-06-07 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Cheryl (and all), You're spot on when you say it's the entire IBM website. There was a huge initiative to streamline ibm.com by removing pretty much everything except marketing-related content, with last week marking the end of the line for most pages. All teams have been working hard to

z/OS V2R1 content in KC (and Google)

2018-06-14 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all. We've been following all the comments here and elsewhere about the removal of the z/OS V2R1 content from KC and have been assessing the situation. -- IBM recognizes the need to improve our client's experience to find relevant content associated with your IBM products and services. To

Re: Looking for IPCS VERBX examples

2018-06-04 Thread Susan Shumway
This is good feedback and definitely worthy of a requirement, so consider opening one. I'll direct my IPCS content developers to this thread as a heads up. -Sue Shumway On 06/04/18 11:28 AM, Don Poitras wrote: In article <1599371286812594.wa.zos.jes2gmail@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:

Re: z/OS Internet Library Broken

2018-06-05 Thread Susan Shumway
If you have feedback that isn't more appropriate for a PMR or requirement, your best bet is to submit it through the KC. To do so, go to, for example, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/ and click the floating "Feedback" button/box/tab. (In Firefox, I see it tacked to the

Re: z/OS Internet Library Broken

2018-06-04 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Dejan, What's the URL of the page that you're trying to access? https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary is working fine for me. -Sue Shumway On 06/04/18 11:01 AM, Dejan Stamatovic wrote: I noticed the problem last week and it still has not been

Re: z/OS Internet Library Broken

2018-06-04 Thread Susan Shumway
Sorry guys, my newsreader only grabbed Allan's post for some reason, so I didn't initially have the rest of the posts with the full story. Geoff was notified and has indeed been working on this, so thank you for the notice! The V2R1 and V2R2 PDF pages should be fixed by EOD tomorrow. In the

Re: z/OS Internet Library Broken (again)

2018-06-29 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for the feedback, all. We just rebuilt the page to remove the tables of links to the individual PDFs. Now, instead, most of the element links point to the main element KC pages, which themselves already contain links to the individual PDFs. What do you think?

Re: Pu

2018-02-01 Thread Susan Shumway
The main page for every z/OS version in KC has a link to the most recent PoOp right on its main page. For example, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0 . Alternatively, at least until/if the URL or form number change, you can point ppl to the PubsCenter (

Re: kc4z. I built it, will they come?

2018-02-23 Thread Susan Shumway
test LPAR shows no contents after loading collection for z/OS2.2 and CICS/TS 5.2. I'll probably reach out and open a PMR next week since everything setup wise looks ok. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Susan Shumway" <chale...@us.ibm.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: kc4z. I built it, will they come?

2018-02-23 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for the question, Bart. We produce the z/OS KC4c plug-ins to include all the products that are directly included in the z/OS product documentation library. It's up to other products to produce their own sets of plug-ins, so, if you don't see them listed, they likely don't exist. We're

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

2018-06-21 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Mike, I'm unable to replicate your problem. Please contact me directly and we can try to get to the bottom of it. Thanks! -Sue Shumway On 06/21/18 3:47 PM, Mike Hochee wrote: Yes, extremely well stated, and timely too!. Ironically, it looks like the z/OS 2.2 Elements and Features

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-08-15 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, I was just brought up to speed on what's going on with Library Server. The IBM-hosted instance of Library Server, which is what serves the content that is linked from https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zos-library-archives , encountered a problem and went

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-08-16 Thread Susan Shumway
replacements of the served Library Server content. Library Server is no longer updated, so it makes sense to move to more current content retrieval methods if possible. Thanks in advance! -Sue Shumway On 8/15/2018 3:27 PM, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi all, I was just brought up to speed

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-08-16 Thread Susan Shumway
You're welcome, David! Please see my most recent post and let me know if you still can't take advantage of any of the newly provided options. Teams continue to work to make the served Library Server available, but its time might be short. -Sue Shumway On 8/15/2018 5:52 PM, David Staudacher

Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-09-05 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, I just received another update on this issue with the hosted Library Server (BookManager site). I can assure you that Claus doesn't have any special insider knowledge - the site wasn't 'CLOSED DOWN' and its temporary offline status was indeed not planned. Nothing has changed - the

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-07 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Steve, This happened with a link to another page in the same PDF? Which release are you using? We overhauled our linking structure for V2R3, so I'm especially curious if that's where you notice the quirks. Regardless, the best way to consume PDF material when offline is with the Adobe

Re: New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs

2019-03-01 Thread Susan Shumway
mway z/OS Product Documentation Lead IBM Poughkeepsie chale...@us.ibm.com On 2/28/2019 9:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:00:57 -0600, Susan Shumway wrote: I want to make you aware that every PDF in the z/OS V2.3 library was just refreshed to update the visual style and link cod

New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs

2019-02-27 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, I want to make you aware that every PDF in the z/OS V2.3 library was just refreshed to update the visual style and link coding. Because of the link coding changes, clicking on a link in an old-style PDF to a new style PDF will not work, and vice versa. So, to ensure that all cross-book

Re: Highly technical question - how do I only get my posts?

2019-03-17 Thread Susan Shumway
verybody's thoughts on this topic. -Sue Shumway On 3/15/2019 1:33 PM, Susan Shumway wrote: I sometimes use Google Groups to access a thread because, for example, it displays all responses chronologically regardless of the thread branching - makes it easier to print or forward complete feedback from

Re: New look and linking for V2.3 product documentation PDFs

2019-03-15 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, Wendell! FWIW, this thread is simply full of constructive feedback that I actually always love receiving. I haven't felt beaten upon on here in at least a few years. ;-) Even if I do again at some point, I'll know that it stems from frustration with one of our outputs and therefore

Re: Highly technical question - how do I only get my posts?

2019-03-15 Thread Susan Shumway
I sometimes use Google Groups to access a thread because, for example, it displays all responses chronologically regardless of the thread branching - makes it easier to print or forward complete feedback from you all. I poked around there and found an "Email updates to me" topic option that

Re: ads on Knowledge Center?

2019-05-31 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, Yikes, thanks for the notice! We alerted the KC folks and they confirmed that it's a glitch with DISQUS. They disabled the functionality until a fix is found. Unfortunately, you'll now need to look elsewhere if you want links to learn how to "Forget Your 401K if you Own a Home (Do

Re: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

2019-06-26 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks! We'll watch for the RFC. -Sue Shumway On 6/26/2019 1:21 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Yep. A typo in my typo complaint. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Re: Problems downloading z/OS 2.2 PDFs from //publibz.boulder.ibm.com

2019-08-29 Thread Susan Shumway
Yes, it looks like you unfortunately landed on a temporary server issue - everything seems to work fine now. Please let me know if you run into similar glitches that aren't resolved within a few hours and I'll alert the appropriate team/s. -Sue Shumway On 8/27/2019 4:54 PM, Mike Hochee

Re: z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15!

2019-09-16 Thread Susan Shumway
the preview stuff). sas On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:26 PM Susan Shumway wrote: Hi all, Many deliverables in the z/OS V2R4 product documentation library were updated today to include content for z15 and other z/OS function - check it out! z/OS Internet Library: http://www.ibm.com/servers

z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15!

2019-09-12 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, Many deliverables in the z/OS V2R4 product documentation library were updated today to include content for z15 and other z/OS function - check it out! z/OS Internet Library: http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary -- Sue Shumway z/OS Product

Re: IBM KC "The request cannot be fulfilled by the server"

2019-08-06 Thread Susan Shumway
Sorry, all. Whatever the problem was, it's apparently resolved now. -Sue Shumway On 8/6/2019 12:51 PM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: I don't think you are doing anything wrong unless the link was changed/moved/updated/or deleted I get the same message, :( Carmen Vitullo - Original Message

z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-23 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi all, All formats of the z/OS V2R4 product documentation are now published! Links to everything are on the z/OS Internet Library: https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary One important item of note is that the revision markers are not showing up in

Re: z/OS 2.4 documentation observation.

2019-07-23 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi John, Thanks for pointing that out. I'll pass your comment on to the owner of the content. -Sue Shumway On 7/23/2019 10:33 AM, John McKown wrote: I have found the z/OS 2.4 documentation. But it appears to be "incomplete". On page

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-23 Thread Susan Shumway
.pdf Jim On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:57:37 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi all, All formats of the z/OS V2R4 product documentation are now published! Links to everything are on the z/OS Internet Library: https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary One important

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-24 Thread Susan Shumway
ot; V2R4 pub edition for a given manual? Perhaps asking about stable URLs isn't something that IBM wants to discuss :-) On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:58 PM Susan Shumway wrote: Hi all, All formats of the z/OS V2R4 product documentation are now published! Links to everything are on the z/OS Inte

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

2019-07-24 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks for the notice about this weird behavior, Lionel. I'll alert the Collection builder and see if he has any ideas. -Sue Shumway On 7/24/2019 11:47 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote: Thanks - did that - but since they claim they get so many issues that one should not expect a response. Thus

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-24 Thread Susan Shumway
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 24 July, 2019 6:23 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published! On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:57:37 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: All

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-26 Thread Susan Shumway
e-Control: no-cache < Expires: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:27:02 GMT < Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:27:02 GMT < Connection: keep-alive < http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd;> Error ErrorHTTP Web Server: Unknown Command Exception * Connection #0 to host www-01.ibm.com left intact On W

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-26 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi gil, I'll pass your questions on to the builder to answer. -Sue Shumway On 7/24/2019 5:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:18:55 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: Associations? Doesn't the IBM server send file types? Doesn't Chrome support file types, which have been in HTTP

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-26 Thread Susan Shumway
in general, I am sure if I saw it in IBM publications. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Shumway Sent: 24 July, 2019 20:10 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

2019-07-26 Thread Susan Shumway
Okay, that's good to hear! Thanks for the follow-up, gil. -Sue Shumway On 7/26/2019 2:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:17:47 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: Okay, please point me to such a PDF as an example if you come across one. They should all be the same, with form numbers

Re: z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15!

2019-09-20 Thread Susan Shumway
re." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15! On 2019-09-20 10:23, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi Gord, I did some poking arou

Re: z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15!

2019-09-20 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Gord, Great, I'm glad that that was the problem and the PDFs themselves are up-to-date for you. And it was an easy mistake to make! We'll have the index.html file corrected right away. -Sue Shumway On 9/20/2019 10:52 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: On 2019-09-20 10:23, Susan Shumway wrote: Hi

Re: z/OS 2.4 September update collection

2019-09-20 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Lionel, Seeing this now, after your more recent post on the same subject in the other thread. Thanks, again, for the notice! We're on it... -Sue Shumway On 9/19/2019 8:51 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote: Downloaded the Sept indexed collection and found a BUG in the

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