That's a lot of work Tom, just to find one manual. I'm thinking about taking the 2.5 .html file produced by IBM to see if I modify it for 3.1; after all many of the files will have similar names. But I'll wait a while longer to see if anything is forthcoming from IBM.
Lennie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: 30 September 2023 08:41 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 3.1 documentation Here are my notes: https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/pdx.html On 9/29/2023 9:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:07:33 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > >> CA has taken to combining all their various TSS manuals into one gigantic >> PDF; no more individual manuals for installation, the admins, the CFILE, >> reporting and trouble-shooting, messages and so on, they're all just >> chapters in one PDF. I dislike it, but I don't see that I have any option >> but to get used to it. >> > The undesirable other extreme is as IBM did in splitting the Assembler > Callable Services simply by alphabetic ranges. Search, Index, and ToC become > less useful. > >> So when you said you can't select individual manuals, I thought maybe IBM >> had taken up the practice too. But no, you said "set of PDF files", so I >> guess you found them all in a single downloaded ZIP and cannot select >> individual PDFs to be downloaded without everything else? >> > The page at <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0> shows some > organization into "shelves", but not what I'm used to. I see no shelf > for Unix System Services as formerly. > > The 1GB .zip does have a .pdx. I overlooked it earlier somehow. It > organizes search results by relevance. But some may find the Adobe > Reader requirement onerous. > > But no index.htm[l]. > > And the collection expands into "zOS310-GA-Indexed-PDF-package-(2023-09-29)/". > I'm uncomfortable with using shell metacharacters in path names. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
