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Reply-To: Deb Cannon 319-335-6321 <ADPDKHTS%BITNET.UIAMVS@EDU.VT.CC.VTVM2>
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From: Deb Cannon 319-335-6321 <ADPDKHTS%BITNET.UIAMVS@EDU.VT.CC.VTVM2>
Subject: SAS Futures / IBM's Book Manager
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CONTENT:  Speculative Question
SUMMARY:  SAS Institute's stand on IBM/Book Manager
REL/PLTF: 5.18/MVS 6.06/MVS 6.07/MVS 6.06/OS/2 6.04/PC-DOS
E-ADDR:   adpdkhts@uiamvs.bitnet
NAME:     Deb Cannon
PHONE:    319-335-6321
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     Our site has recently installed and implemented IBM's new
     Book Manager, an online manual system.  All their manuals shipped
     with new software will be distributed in this way.  That's not to
     say you can't get manuals anymore, but this new systems is so slick
     that I'll never use a paper manual again if I don't have to...what
     impressed me the most was it's ability to interface with SDSF (MVS
     display facility for spool/print datasets):  Placing your cursor on
     a message in the console log, for example, and invoking a PFkey
     that invokes Book Manager, will take you *directly* to the manual
     that explains that message.  Not to mention the waste, in both
     productivity and earth resources, that having manuals online will
     prevent.

     Speaking of manuals, I was working on a SAS problem yesterday
     that caused a pile of 5 manuals on my desk, all open to the
     page I was consulting.  While I have no beef against SAS
     documentation per se, wouldn't it be great to have it all
     ONLINE?  With indexes (a Book Manager feature) , so you can search
     entire 'sets' of manuals for all existing verbage on a feature?
     IBM, I'm told, has left a door open for third-party documentation.
     Anyone heard how SAS is going to react to this?  Surely all the
     manuals are already in machine-readable format.....

     Deb

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