Hi Shmuel,
So, there's just the page title but no contents? That's strange. It
looks okay to me on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, so I'm not sure what the
problem is on your end. If others notice the same behavior, I'll look
into if it's a problem on the content or site end.
In the meantime, here are direct links to the Softcopy Reader downloadables:
IBM Softcopy Reader/Windows V4.0:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/bookmanager/tools/ilrjava.exe
Release Notes:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/bookmanager/tools/swinread.txt
-Sue Shumway
On 4/27/2020 1:57 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Is it browser dependent? What I get is
IBM®
IBM Support Offerings My support Downloads Documents Cases Communities
Training Other
Downloadable free BookManager tools and components
Contact IBM Privacy Terms of use Accessibility
with different values for the middle line.
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Hi Shmuel,
It's a sort of old-school site - you just need to do some clicking. From
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/324693 , click "IBM Softcopy
Reader", which gets you to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/324679
. From there, click "Download Softcopy Reader for Windows 4.0", which
gets you to https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/731199 . Scroll to
the bottom for the link to download the package with FTP.
-Sue Shumway
On 4/27/2020 12:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I assume that's under the Download tab, but none of the menu options seem
appropriate.
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See "Downloadable free BookManager tools and components" (
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/324693 ) for links to download
IBM Softcopy Reader and other helpful resources.
If you ever need to access older z/OS documentation, note that we've
made available PDF versions of it back to V1R10, available in the IBM Z
Publications Library Archive:
https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zos-library-archives
-Sue Shumway
On 4/27/2020 5:49 AM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 27.04.2020 o 11:14, Juergen Kehr pisze:
Hello,
where just in the process to migrate our z/OS systems to V2.4. As you
know, on z/OS V2.4 BookManager/READ isn't available anymore. But
unfortunately some developers come up with a requirement to read some
very old homegrown documentation files (.BOO files). So my question
is, are there any free tools available to read and/or convert these
files to PDF or HTML?
BOO files can be still read using existing tools like IBM Softcopy
Reader which works nicely under Win10 x64 and older Windows versions.
You can still use IBM Library Reader which is 16-bit application and
will not work under 64-bit Windows, but you can run it under old Windows
running under Virtual Box or other tool. Personally I prefer Library
Reader, but it is simpler to use Softcopy Reader.
Note: both tools were available for download and IMHO you can still use
it, even if IBM removed it from webpage. If you need a copy, just look
for older documentation on DVD or CD.
I hope you don't want to use BOO files under z/OS. ;-)
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