z/os USS: 'man' fails to read bookmaster

maraixadm · New User Joined: 20 Mar 2015 Posts: 1 Location: us

Greetings all, I suspect I need some help looking behind the USS curtain at z/os itself -

we have two z/OS instances; on one the 'man' command finds input content, formats and displays it and caches the results. All good:

Robert Sample · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:21 am

The message about converting to codepage 1047 makes me wonder if the manuals weren't loaded correctly.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:32 am

There's a reference to that error-code here:

steve-myers · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:55 am

First of all, Bookmanager book files are not Bookmaster data; they are an entirely separate data format created from true Bookmaster data by using the Bookmanager/Build product. Second, these files are true binary data and can only be transferred as binary data. Any attempt to transfer them as text data will just corrupt the data.

I don't know anything about this MAN program. If the files it tried to read are not valid Bookmanager files, which can easily happen if they were not transferred correctly, it's going to break. Another possibility is the program cannot read Bookmanager book files.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:51 am

I thought I'd edited this one into my previous...