Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
<berry.vansleeuwen@...> wrote:
Well that was exciting for a few moments. But it's really just a front
end that invokes the IBM machine code (SOs/DLLs) that actually
implements the
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Tony Harminc
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#6486
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Hmm, I was expecting under 2000, and inadvertently truncated the list.
Untruncated version follows. I haven't tried to de-dupe the http vs
https here, though I did filter out some other
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Dennis Boone
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#6485
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Just to test, I have downloaded them all. But I only have 1214 files, so I think there about 540 missing.
Interestingly, there are about 196 duplicates in this list. It looks like archive.org thinks
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6484
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Here's a question, how about a link to IBM itself? I expect that wouldn't cause any problems either. However, I don't know if all publications are still available at IBM. I guess they are for sure
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6483
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2210303.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278324.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278325.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/p
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Dennis Boone
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#6482
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Fish wrote:
And by link, I want to be clear that I'm referring a link to the ARCHIVE.ORG url, *not* a link to your own downloaded copy on your own or someone else's web site! I'm sure IBM would scream
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Fish Fish
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#6481
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Mark A. Stevens wrote:
Maybe someone could write a program that could download each one, extract the manual name and number, and compile a list manual names and numbers with a link pointing to the
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Fish Fish
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#6480
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
You might want to look at the boo2pdf program by Kevin Bowling at https://github.com/kev009/boo2pdf.
I tried to get it working in my Linux machine but for now it failed. Probably because I have a
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6479
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Maybe both? This is a copy from Wayback of IBM PDFs, with their confusing filenames.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6478
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
As a somewhat frustrated follow-up, I've discovered that my screen reader does not handle the IBM Softcopy utility at all, at least not without use of OCR, which is the very problem I was trying to
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Zachary Kline
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#6477
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Hi Ren¨¦ and all,
Thanks for the quick and helpful responses. I am, as it happens, without sight of any kind, hence why I prefer documents in original electronic format whenever possible to spare me
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Zachary Kline
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#6476
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I've stumbled on this collection, in BookManager format.
http://villiers.info/P390/$P390_BOO/_IBM_books.htm
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6475
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Before IBM took down a very handy publication website, I was able to get some of VM/ESA 2.4 documentation.? I use SoftCopy Reader to access my manuals and the folder for VM/ESA 2.4 pubs is about
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Jim Snellen
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#6474
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I am not sure what you mean here, no previous knowledge or no sight? :-/
Anyway, if it is the first, I would recommend reading this:
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247316.html
It
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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#6473
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I think all the ESA documents have been removed.. Following the link from the product announcement page gives a 404
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Dave Wade
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#6472
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
There are some manuals at https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/ <https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*> but to reach them you need to know the exact filename
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6471
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Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Hi All,
I guess this question probably comes up a lot, but here we go again. :)
I wondered if anyone had a good source for VM/ESA era manuals they could point me to? I've looked on Bitsavers but
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Zachary Kline
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#6470
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Maybe Bitsavers is a better place than Wayback Machine?
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VM/370 CE V1R1.2, Hercules on macOS
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6469
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
All these responses are useful. Thanks! As I don't have any need for "z" operating systems, nor licenses, I'll probably go Aethra. Speed isn't really an issue for me, but I always lean toward lighter
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BlameTroi
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#6468
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Re: IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application
[email protected]> wrote:
The best dump tool I've ever seen, bar none, was Kolinar's KPROBE, and I
spent 20 years working on applications for VM, 12 of them developing and
supporting VMBACKUP and
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Ross Patterson
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#6467
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