How to search in online manuals

mainframe_techie · New User Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

Can any body please tell me how to find the required topic in IBM online manuals??

It would be of great help really. I have always beeing struggling to get the topic. The search just doesnt work there.

Thanks,

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:43 am

mainframe_techie · New User Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

I am asking for some help in searching the required ( that is any topic,say OUTREC ) in online IBM manual ( publibz.boulder.ibm.com ). Whenever I make search for any topic say OUTREC, I dont get it.

So can any body tell me how do you locate the required ( say OUTREC ) in the online IBM manual??

Thanks in advance,
mainframe_techie

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:52 am

Hello "programmer" mainframe_techie,

Have you looked at the DFSORT/ICETOOL forum and noticed all the "Stickys" that among them point to DFSORT/ICETOOL Reference Material that point to DFSORT Documentation which, in turn, points to BookManager files for z/OS DFSORT Library (April, 2006)?

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Bill

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:14 am

mainframe_techie,

Are you asking how to do a search in the IBM pubs in general? If so, why did you post that to the DFSORT/ICETOOL Forum?

If you are asking specifically about searching the DFSORT books, then you can find them as Bill suggests, open either the pdf or Bookmanager file of your choice and use the search capability provided.

ap_mainframes · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:11 am

Frank/Bill,

Yes, I wanted to know how do we search in IBM pubs as such.
I posted in DFSORT forum as we were reffering to the links in the above topic.

My apologies if there is any confusion because of this. But any answer to my question??

mainframe_techie