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 the downloaded k4t4949b.zip file, Windows File Explorer receives an error message "Windows cannot open the folder. The compressed (zipped) folder k4t4949b.zip is invalid." It appears that the file was zipped using the 7-Zip utility; 7-Zip opens the file nicely. This was probably done (accidentally?) because 7-Zip can create a smaller file, reducing the time required to download, as well as reducing the impact on the server.
To me, this is somewhat bad technique on IBM's part. This doesn't seem to have been documented anywhere, and requiring a 3rd party utility to read the file is not really a good idea. But, 7-Zip works (and is free)! Attn. Marna ... can you speak to this, and maybe get this corrected? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
