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Original message From: Bernd Oppolzer
Date: 3/20/23 12:40 (GMT-05:00) To:
IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] BookManager I would like to
thank all who responded and tell you about the solution we found.First of all,
with some support
I would like to thank all who responded and tell you about the solution
we found.
First of all, with some support from somewhere, we managed to re-install
the BookManager software
on the z/OS 2.5 system - unsupported / as-is. This, at least, allows us
to read the books temporarily
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 5:51 PM
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Subject: Re: BookManager
The BookManager format (on z/OS at least) is a special output format from
the DCF (Document Composition Facility) SCRIPT command. With OS/390
Softcopy Print you could print from the BookManager books but I
FAIK, IBM used the BookManager BUILD tag set, which is a superset of
> BookMaster. Note that the PC versions of BookManager BUILD were totally
> different and did not support Script input.
>
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>
>
AFAIK, IBM used the BookManager BUILD tag set, which is a superset of
BookMaster. Note that the PC versions of BookManager BUILD were totally
different and did not support Script input.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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The BookManager format (on z/OS at least) is a special output format from
the DCF (Document Composition Facility) SCRIPT command. With OS/390
Softcopy Print you could print from the BookManager books but I never
thought the results were really great. If you have the original source
text which
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:59:09 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer
wrote:
>What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF?
>
>My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access
>after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4).
>
>We managed to transfer the
s/was/is
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Roger Bolan
Date: Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 01:07
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: BookManager
The B2H tool was BookMaster source to HTML, not BookManager
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:19 AM Colin Paice wrote
B2H does BookMASTER to HTML, not BookManager to PDF. (And, yes, HTML to PDF is
probably trivial for most people.)
I use B2H on TSO in Batch almost daily, FWIW.
Cheers, Martin
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Colin Paice
Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 18:19
To: IBM-MAIN
The B2H tool was BookMaster source to HTML, not BookManager
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:19 AM Colin Paice wrote:
> There is a very old B2H package which I think is Rexx based. It was
> supported on Windows NT, OS2, VM, OS390 etc,
> I think I used to use it. It is mention
There is a very old B2H package which I think is Rexx based. It was
supported on Windows NT, OS2, VM, OS390 etc,
I think I used to use it. It is mentioned
http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~ivica/b2h.html
Colin
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 18:00, Bernd Oppolzer
wrote:
> What is the preferred way to
What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF?
My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access
after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4).
We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can
at least look at
Thanks for the better approach. Hadn't thought of that -- too many years of
everything SMP!
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As best I can tell, Bookmanager support ended in 2014. If that's the case I
would assume the chance of ever getting any kind of maintenance to it is nil.
Does it even need to be kept in SMP/E anywhere or could you just copy the
runtime libraries to the 2.4 system and let them be?
Rex
I don't want to reinvent if someone has successfully copied BookManager Read
and Library Server to their z/OS 2.4 system. (We have some old documentation
that is only available in BookManager format.) If you have done so and may
share the process please do. Short of a proven process any
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Susan Shumway [chale...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: Read BookManager/READ files
Hi Shmuel,
I'm glad that you found an environment that lets you access the content
properly.
Thanks for you tip about IE
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Susan Shumway [chale...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 2:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Read BookManager/READ files
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
of
Susan Shumway [chale...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 2:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Read BookManager/READ files
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
, 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
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
opriate.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Susan Shumway [chale...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 12:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Read BookManager/READ files
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 resource
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
] on behalf of
Juergen Kehr [kehrjuer...@t-online.de]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 5:14 AM
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Subject: Read BookManager/READ files
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
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
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
-
"z/OS 1.13 MVS"
... resolves to http://ibm.com/support/libraryserver_os390/Shelves/iea2bkb5
automatically.
z/OS 1.13 Bookshelves are here:
http://ibm.com/support/libraryserver_os390/Shelves?filter=z%2FOS+V1R13=Find
z/OS 1.13 is the last z/OS Release with documentation on web based B
Juergen Kehr wrote:
As you probably know Bookmanager BUILD isn't supported and delivered with z/OS
V2.2 anymore.
We've had the idea to transfer the "old" Bookmanager BUILD FMIDs via BUILDMCS
into a seperate CSI in the V2.2 environment. Now our question is: Will this work? Of
c
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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:20 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: (External):Re: Bookmanager BUILD and z/OS V2.2
Juergen Kehr wrote
As you probably know Bookmanager BUILD isn't supported and delivered with z/OS
V2.2 anymore.
We've had the idea to transfer the "old" Bookmanager BUILD FMIDs via BUILDMCS
into a seperate CSI in the V2.2 environment. Now our question is: Will this
work? Of course it's not offically
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