On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:23:19 -0800, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: >>> There is no thought that I am aware of to change from having the z/OS >>> manuals other than data areas in both book and PDF format. >>> >> >> There are other IBM products besides z/OS that are already dropping >> the .boo format for some of their books. I recently had the need to >> get current books for DB2 V9.1 for z/OS. I've found many of them >> in both .pdf and .boo format while some were available only as .pdf. >> > >Peter is right. Many products have fully transitioned to, or are moving >toward, Information Centers. For example: > >DB2: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp >CICS: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/index.jsp >WAS: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1/index.jsp >DS8000: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp >Tivoli Storage Manager: >http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp >z/VM: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/index.jsp > >In keeping with the tradition that Z/OS users are always the last to >know, possibly because we're the most demanding group, ours is referred >to as a "beta" >http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r10/index.jsp so as not >to imply our existing sources of documentation are going away, which I >believe they are (eventually). > And then there are Library Centers also. For example: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/bookmgr_OS390/libraryserver/zosv1r9/ But I assume those are being replaced with the Information Centers. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
