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How can you use the IBM Online Library?
You can set up an IBM Online Library on your Windows workstation for yourself or you can share it with your co-workers. You can distribute the library throughout your organization to individual workstations or to a few conveniently located, walk-up-and-use "information kiosks." You can centralize it on your MVS, VM, OS/390, or z/OS host or on a LAN server and share it within your entire enterprise. The IBM Online Library has been designed so that you can distribute it as widely as you need inside your enterprise.

You can:

  • Install the IBM Softcopy Reader and view the BookManager books on a disc drive attached to your Windows workstation.

  • Install an Adobe Acrobat Reader and view or print the PDF files on a disc drive attached to your Windows workstation.

  • Upload the books from a workstation to an MVS or VM host and view them from an attached terminal or workstation with the IBM BookManager READ/MVS or READ/VM licensed programs. These licensed programs are not provided in the IBM Online Library.

  • Upload the books from a workstation to an OS/390 host and view them from an attached terminal or workstation with the IBM BookManager READ component of OS/390.

  • Upload the books and the reader installation package to an MVS, OS/390, or VM host, download them, and install them on a workstation that doesn't have a disc drive.

  • Upload the books to an OS/390, z/OS, MVS, OS/2, Windows, or AIX server and use BookServer to serve the books to a Web browser for viewing over the Internet or an intranet.

  • Copy the reader installation package to a diskette and install the reader on a workstation that doesn't have a disc drive or a host connection.

  • Create shared folders of Online Library books on an AS/400, and view them using OS/400 InfoSeeker (Version 3 or later of AS/400 only).

  • View the books directly from the CD-ROM or DVD using InfoSeeker on AS/400 Version 3 Release 6 or later.

  • Copy books to diskettes and view them on the diskettes using the Softcopy Reader.

  • Copy books to diskettes, then to the hard disk of the workstation, and view them using the Softcopy Reader.


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