The pdf's are fine for print and general reading. And searching has improved. UNTIL I want the specific rc/rsn for an IDC3009I which is somewhere between pages 299 and 573 in the iea3m602.pdf and since almost every other IDC message references IDC3009I, the search in the pdf is pretty useless.
Bookmanager search is still the best. And for what it's worth, I always download all the books and shelves using Softcopy Librarian. Searching in Softcopy Librarian used to pass the search into the Bookmanager book and take you directly to the result. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:55 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: > z/OS V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > Tom - I'm in total agreement with you. I never liked BookManager on > Windows and I prefer PDF's as I don't need a network connection, I can place > the one's I need on my iPad for easy access if my PC is down, and the > advanced search to cross PDF boundaries is excellent. > > It works so please don't break it. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lionel B. Dyck > Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA > Enterprise Operations (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) Information and > Technology, IT Operations and Services > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 11:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library: z/OS > V2R2 Collection, March 2017 > > A year or more ago I went looking for the latest PDF documents for an > Omegamon sub-product (Networks I think?) and couldn't find them. I did find > PDF's for the previous version so I sent an email to one of the authors and > got a response: There were no PDF's for the latest, only the web-based doc, > and if I wanted a PDF I could click buttons on the web page to grab all the > pages and put them into a PDF. That ended up just like you said, a PDF of > relatively unrelated snippets :) > > Very odd, and I hope that isn't the way of the future. To me, the online > snippets are useful only if I get lucky and find what I need via search. But > once I'm reading a section, even with the KC next/prev page clicking (like the > left/right arrows which don't seem to work all the time), I usually give up > quickly and just go download something I can read - the PDF manual. > > Plus, with the PDF (even if it's not completely up-to-date) I have information > on my PC without needing an IP connection, which could be important in a > pinch. > > Now don't take me too seriously, since I may be a bit unusual because I never > liked Bookmanager on my PC either, something people seem to like a lot > here. > > Dana Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:31:11 +0200, Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> > wrote: > > > >>Now, I B M w i l l y o u p l e a s e, p l e a s e n o t a b a n d > >>o n t h i s > "Download books in PDF format" support ever!!! KC has its place but will > never be a replacement for PDFs to be read offline! > >> > > > > > > My biggest fear is that IBM will continue moving the z/OS documentation in > the direction it has taken with the IBM i docs in the past. The main content > in the Knowledge Center consists of small, one or two paragraph tidbits, > filled > with links to other items, making it almost impossible to read in depth about > a > topic for a good overview. Then the PDF version is just the same little > snippets from the KC, strung together into a pdf document. > > > > Dana > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
