On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:16:29 -0500, Geoff Smith wrote: >This may be of interest to some of you.
Yes. Thanks. >We just published a refresh of “z/OS V2R2 Acrobat Indexed PDF Collection 9/16 >Refresh". It is a rather large ZIP file (1063.4 MB -- a high speed >connection is recommended). It was created using the standard Windows 7 zip >function. Once unzipped, there is a PDF sub-directory that contains an >index.html. The html index file lists all the titles of the PDFs on indexed >on the collection. The collection also contains an Adobe catalog (.pdx) of >the all the z/OS V2R2 PDF on the kit. This lets you perform a full text >search across the entire library. >To do a search, use the free acrobat reader (desktop not browser plugin) to >open the "zOS V2R2 Acrobat Indexed PDF Collection 3Q16.pdx file found in the >PDF sub-directory. The Acrobat Reader will open an advanced search dialog with >the full text search catalog already selected. (All Adobe catalog files have >".pdx" extension). The kit includes is an article "How to Search Using Adobe >Indexed PDFs” that provides details on how to do a basic search. For more >advanced search function, see the help for Adobe Acrobat. > >The user experience is similar to the way “BookManager” displayed its hits >within the context of books. Well, yes and no. I did a search for JCLIN and looked at the hits in the SMP/E reference. BookManager lists the 39 topics that contain JCLIN. The PDF search lists around 250 times that the word "JCLIN" occurs in the text with no indication of what topic in the book contains it. The "context" is several words that follow "JCLIN" in the text. This is not very helpful in finding the information that I need. You can sort the results by filename, but that is no help when a large list is found. You can't sort by manual title. Sorting by relevance seems only to sort the manuals, and the references in the manuals are in sequential order. I assume that this is a limitation of the Adobe Reader, but frankly, I don't care why it is hard to use, I simply report it as I see it. This was my experience when I tried the first edition of this collection. When I need to find current information, I go to my BookManager shelves to find the out where it is documented, then open the new PDF to that section. So far this works for most things, but as the newer manuals continue to diverge, it will be less effective. >Search for a term and the reader will display a list of books with "+" sign >next to each book. Clicking the plus sign reveals the hits with some context >found for the terms in that book. The form number is SC27-8430-03 and it is >available from the IBM Publications Center. The URL for this is https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?PAG=C11&SSN=16I0M0007459824596&TRL=TXT&WRD=&PBL=SC27-8430-03&LST=ALL&RPP=10&submit=Go# This is different from the k4t4949b.zip collection that was mentioned earlier in this thread. That collection also includes .bki files, but it isn't clear to me how they can be used. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
