On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:57:37 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote:
>
>All formats of the z/OS V2R4 product documentation are now published!
>Links to everything are on the z/OS Internet Library:
>https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary
>...
>Otherwise, as always, we welcome and value your input, so let us know
>what you think!
>
Here, I'll be harsh about the formatting of the index.html file as extracted
from the large .zip file.  An excerpt:
    ...
z/OS UNIX System Services
Title                                                                           
  Order number Last modified  Download
z/OS UNIX System Services Programming Tools                                     
  SA23-2282-40 10-Jul-19 Link bpxa600_v2r4.pdf (1.38MB)
z/OS UNIX System Services Programming: Assembler Callable Services Reference    
  SA23-2281-40 10-Jul-19 Link bpxb100_v2r4.pdf (5.61MB)
    ...
The "Link" field is extraneous; it just wastes screen space.  Better
to eliminate it and make one of the other fields ("Title" is best) an 
active relative URL to the document.

It's unclear what "Download" is good for.  I can copy it into a browser search
window and Google finds me the document at IBM.com.  Kinda roundabout.

The "Link" is too far from the Title.  On some documents, to be sure I click the
correct link I must use the edge of a window as a straightedge.  A good design
principle is to place the column with the most variable length rightmost, 
regardless
of its importance.

So:
z/OS UNIX System Services
Order number  Last mod   Download                   Title
SA23-2282-40  10-Jul-19  bpxa600_v2r4.pdf  (1.38MB) z/OS UNIX System Services 
Programming Tools
SA23-2281-40  10-Jul-19  bpxb100_v2r4.pdf  (5.61MB) z/OS UNIX System Services 
Programming: Assembler Callable Services Reference
    ...
Thanks,
gil

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