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As the man pages look just like the pages on the web, it should be possible to use that format to generate the pages in man format (I've used Python to do something similar to download control blocks from html)
it looks like the hard bit will be getting the man command to interpret the data and display it. This might be easier than porting man to z/OS
Saw this on IBM-Main
It's a tough climb: It's hard enough to get IBM to conform to standards, let alone widespread prevailing conventions.
And Single UNIX says <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/man.html#tag_20_77_18>:
RATIONALE
It is recognized that the man utility is only of minimal usefulness as specified. The opinion of the standard developers was strongly divided as to how much or how little information man should be required to provide. They considered, however, that the provision of some portable way of accessing documentation would aid user portability. The arguments against a fuller specification were:
When installing FOSS, I have directed the man pages to an NFS-exported directory, then run a script on Solaris to access every man page, ">/dev/null", rendering the nroff format into the "cat" hierarchy for viewing on MVS. Far from ideal.
Saw this on ibm-main:
It's a tough climb: It's hard enough to get IBM to conform to standards, let alone widespread prevailing conventions.
And Single UNIX says <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/man.html#tag_20_77_18>:
RATIONALE
It is recognized that the man utility is only of minimal usefulness as specified. The opinion of the standard developers was strongly divided as to how much or how little information man should be required to provide. They considered, however, that the provision of some portable way of accessing documentation would aid user portability. The arguments against a fuller specification were:
When installing FOSS, I have directed the man pages to an NFS-exported directory, then run a script on Solaris to access every man page, ">/dev/null", rendering the nroff format into the "cat" hierarchy for viewing on MVS. Far from ideal.