On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:00:57 -0600, Susan Shumway wrote:
I want to make you aware that every PDF in the z/OS V2.3 library was just
refreshed to update the visual style and link coding. Because of the link
coding changes, clicking on a link in an old-style PDF to a new style PDF will
not work, and vice versa. So, to ensure that all cross-book links continue to
work for you, ensure that you download the entire fresh set of library PDFs
from https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library
as soon as you get the chance.
Now I'm trying it. Seems pretty good.
It would be nice if the web metadata included file size so I could eagerly
watch the progress bar during download.
Is the "zOS_V2R3_Documentation.pdx" index gone? I sometimes found it useful.
It would sure be nice if the cross-document references pointed to a chapter, not
just to the title page of the referenced document. I suspect that's not easy
to do.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:52:20 +0000, Allan Staller wrote:
Ref:
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library
I observed one thing.hThe introductory "new style" screens are portrait
oriented and take up a lot of vertical real estate.
The new screens generate a lot of unnecessary scrolling.
I have a laptop and a desktop, both with landscape oriented monitors.
The only portrait oriented device I have is a cell phone.
For that it would be nice if the doc were semantic-oriented html, adapting
to screen geometry, not presentation-oriented. Not likely to happen.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:06:52 -0600, Wendell Lovewell wrote:
Thanks for the update Sue. I'm not sure how we would find out this information
without your posting it here.
1) Could you please use the full title names (minus "/" and ":" characters) for
the file names? The 8.3 file names (actually, they aren't all 8-character anymore) are not very
usable.
Use the index.html file.
I generally use Windows File Explorer to find a manual I've downloaded. But to be able to find something by
the file system name, I have to open each to determine which manual it is, copy the title (and maybe the
publication number), close the pdf and then rename it. "asmr1023.pdf" is not meaningful.
"SC26-4940-08 HLASM Language Reference.pdf" is. And if the title has a slash, colon, or other
invalid character for a file name, I have to remove those. (There might be reasons to replace the spaces
with underscores.) It's often easier to copy the pub # and title and use "Save As" so that I can
use the full title as a file name. Of course, this breaks any links between manuals.
Use symbolic links rather than renaming.
2) The second thing to please stop dividing the manuals into sections so that
the page numbers referenced from the TOC and all other places within the manual
are the actual PDF page numbers. PDF doesn't (generally) recognize sections
like this, so page numbers cited in the manual are always several pages short
of the PDF page number. (Hyperlinks from the TOC are great, but references to
page numbers within the text are usually not set up as links.)
I do not have this problem with my PDF viewer, ancient MacOS Preview. Does this
problem occur when you just click on a ToC entry?
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:46:27 -0500, Gord Tomlin wrote:
On 2019-02-28 11:06, Wendell Lovewell wrote:
(There might be reasons to replace the spaces with underscores.)
Blanks in file names can be a hassle on Linux.
Hasn't bothered me that much.
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 09:53:57 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote:
black and white was appreciated. Even one tiny blue underline on a page
might make it 5 times the cost to print that page.
Can't you override to monochrome in your printer setup?
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:30:49 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
On 2/28/2019 2:39 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 1/03/2019 4:10 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
Personally, I don't really like the index.html method IBM provides, so
I do! I think it's one of the most usable ways to access the manuals IBM
has provided in a long time.
Sorry I wasn't very clear! I do like index.html a whole lot better than
my old method which was (like Wendell) renaming the pdf files to their
title. And of course I really appreciate being able to download the
whole collection all at once.
Old stuff. That's been available for a couple years.
Really, my only problem with index.html is that (at least in Chrome) the
pdf file is opened in the browser.
Firefox doesn't do that to me. I guess I'm just lucky.
... There are probably Chrome ways around that if I would just look.
That's configurable in Firefox, but sometimes I forget how.
Oh... one other nitpick - I always
tend to try to click the Title but I need to click the filename to the
left instead. But that's just me being overly picky.
Too many web page designers do that to you.
-- gil
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