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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 11:30 AM To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
