As below, Softcopy Librarian. Just get'em all. I even brought the VSE's down last time just in case some cost saving idea needs refuting or support?
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Downloading IBM manuals > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:03:07 -0700, David Alcock wrote: > > >Every time a new z/OS operating system level comes along I go > >to the IBM library page and download each manual I'm interested > >in (i.e. most in the MVS bookshelf) one at a time and give them > >somewhat meaningful names like "zos 110 init and tuning ref.pdf" > >instead of iea2e291.pdf for example. What do you do? > > > >I just tried out using the DownloadThemAll Firefox add-on and you > >can easily get all manuals with the cryptic 8.3 filenames. I found > >a PDF library for Python that is easy enough to use to display the > >titles by the file names. See this web page I created: > > > > http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsintosh/IBM_Manuals/index.html > > > >I'm probably missing a lot easier way of doing things. I started > >searching for some type of freeware that displays PDF titles in a > >directory but have been unlucky so far. Any suggestions? > > This has been discussed here several times before. > > What I do is use the Softcopy Librarian to get the bookshelves and the > extended bookshelves that I am interested in. Then I use the Softcopy > Reader to find the book (either PDF or boo) that I want to read. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
