Hélio > I need to <do something involving z/OS>.
> How <can I> do (it)? > Where do I find these instructions ? First decide on a likely token to use in a search. Let's take "logrec" as an example! Then go to the following page: "z/OS Internet Library" http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Then select your version[1] and release of z/OS under "Publication titles, filenames, and order numbers by z/OS release". Let us assume V1R13 - curiously represented as V1.13! This takes us to the following page: "z/OS V1R13.0 elements and features bookshelves" http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zshelves13.html#zbop [2] If you know what component is involved, you can, of course, scroll to the relevant bookshelf. However, if you are unsure of the component - or a bit too lazy to scroll down the page! - you can enter that likely token into the "Search text" box under "z/OS V1R13.0 Base Elements Optional Features - 448 books". Entering "logrec", we come to the following page: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/EZ2ZO213?searchRequest=logrec&SEARCH=Search+text&Type=FUZZY&SearchTopic=TOPIC&searchText=TEXT&searchIndex=INDEX&rank=RANK [3] This presents us with a daunting list of 116 manuals. However, the first one, "z/OS V1R13.0 MVS Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids" looks rather promising so we'll have a look at that first (and actually we'll discover there is no need to try others). http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SEARCH?SEARCHREQUEST=logrec&Book=iea2v1c0&DN=GA22-7589-17&DT=20110616233757&TYPE=FUZZY&RANK=RANK&SEARCHTOPIC=TOPIC&SEARCHTEXT=TEXT&SEARCHINDEX=INDEX&SHELF=EZ2ZO213.bks The first "hit" is "Recording logrec error records, 14.0" which translates to "14.0 Recording logrec error records" when the page is selected. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2v1c0/14.0 Note that this time I have stripped off all the "garbage" from the "?" character onwards. This section in the "z/OS V1R13.0 MVS Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids" manual will give you the start you appear to need on the topic of "logrec". It also incorporates the section to which John McKown directed you with a bare URL containing a gobbledygook code representing the manual name. If he had indicated exactly what manual it was, there would have been no need for further posts actually providing you with - and arguing over - the JCL statements. - I would hope that a similar procedure to the one outlined above would enable you to become self-sufficient in the future when relatively straightforward questions arise - and maybe even some more complicated ones! - [1] Anticipating that one fine day IBM might actually stretch to a Version 2 and so on. [2] Note how the release number is embedded in the URL so enabling you to leap between releases from one or other flavour of this page. This is something I do quite often - adopting obviously a binary search pattern - in order to discover when a relatively new feature was introduced or when some new abomination crept into manual text! [3] Note the token "FUZZY" embedded in the URL text. If your token happens to be a phrase with embedded blanks, you can insist that that is the string used in the search rather than just pages with the tokens arranged anywhere on the page by replacing "FUZZY" with "EXACTW" for "Exact" or "EXACTN" for "Exact any case" and pressing the "return" key. How do I know this? Well you may be aware that there is a search function once you are looking at manual pages - the "torch" symbol. Using this search facility there are three options: "Exact", "Exact any case" and "Fuzzy", the default. The same tokens, "EXACTW", "EXACTN" and "FUZZY" appear in the URL after using this search function. Nous! - Chris Mason On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:35:54 -0200, HELIO <helio.si...@rural.com.br> wrote: >All list, > >I need to format the dataset logrec. How do I can do? > >Where do I find these instructions ? > > >Thank you very much. >-- > >*Hélio José da Silva ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
