Making Bookshelves Available on z/OS
- Start the z/OS BookManager Reader and go to the list of bookshelves.
- Do not select any bookshelves. Select Books choice on the action bar and press Enter.
- In the window that appears, select 6. Perform
file functions.
- In the window that appears, select 5. Add.
- Type, between single quotation marks, the name of the first bookshelf
you uploaded and press Enter.
'ibmbk.ez2shelf-name.bkshelf'
You
may want to add to the master list, which is defined by the QLSHELF
parameter in the EOXVOPTS REXX EXEC. For example, if you look at the
EOXVOPTS member, you see a statement like this:
QLSHELF
= "'EOY.BKLSHELF'"
The name of the master list here is:
'EOY.BKLSHELF' The
bookshelf is now added.
- Repeat steps 4, 5, and 6 for each bookshelf in BKSHELF.LST. When
you have finished, press F12 to return to the
list of bookshelves.
- Type a slash (/) next to each bookshelf you just added.
- Select the Books choice on the action bar
and press Enter.
- In the window that appears, select 6. Perform
file functions.
- In the window that appears, select 4. Edit.
- In the window that appears, select 4. Add data
set names.
- In the window that appears, type the high-level qualifier that
you added to each file name, and press Enter.
For example, ibmbk
- Press F12 to return to the previous window.
- Press F6 to skip the bookshelf you just
added. The next bookshelf you selected appears.
- Repeat steps 10, 11, 12, and 13 for each bookshelf you selected.
- When you have finished with all the bookshelves, a window with
the list of bookshelves reappears.
- Press F5 to refresh the list
and see the newly added bookshelves.
You are now ready to use the new bookshelves. You can use the BOOKMGR command in your host session to view the
bookshelves and books in a collection of IBM books. Refer to the BookManager
READ/MVS books for more information about using BookManager READ on
your host.
Note:
To conserve space on your host DASD, you can release
any unused space you allocated when you uploaded the books and bookshelf
search indexes. You can use DFHSM to migrate the data set.
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