Re: DSKBAL... ---> Online/Softcopy info -- MIDRANGE-L

I've also noticed that the IBM site that has the manuals online no longer has 
many popular manuals under V4R4.  If you click on the manual you get a 
worthless one page PDF presentation.  Then I go back to the V4R3 online manuals 
and they are there.  Time for everyone to flood the webmaster?

Check out:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
Look under the shelf Integrated Database and File System.
Look at SQL Programming
The online V4R4 is worthless.  I tried it.  Went to the assigned URL.  Try to 
search on SELECT.


This is what I sent when I clicked on feedback:


To:  rchclerk@us.ibm.com
Subject:  http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm

I tried the 'new' method of infocenter.  I was looking up a SQL technique.  
So I went to the web site
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
and selected the V4R4 version of SQL programming.  Much to my surprise I got 
a one page PDF file instead of the familiar online version of the book.  I 
clicked on the URL in this page.  I tried to use the new format.  I did a 
search on SELECT.  I received no hits regarding the SELECT statement in SQL.  
In fact none of the entries were remotely related to SQL.  Please abandon 
this and provide a solution instead.  If you can't come up with anything 
better, then go back to the old format.

I ended up going back to the V4R3 site to get useful information.



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rp@rogerpence.com on 08/08/99 10:25:20 PM
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Don--

Check this out

http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/performance/v4upgrade.html

it lists the PTFs needed down to V4R1 and provides a smattering of
documentation. IBM just doesn't get it with the docs. Have you noticed that
the V4R4 softcopy library doesn't even include the SQL manuals now! Gotta go
somewhere else now. Geeze. Note to IBM: you can keep track of this stuff
with a computer--get one!

rp







----- Original Message -----
From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, 08 August, 1999 4:57 PM
Subject: DSKBAL...


>
> Is it my blindness and fat fingers or is this command just not documented
> anywhere worth a damn?  I thought it was on 4.2 and should be on my
> useless frizbee (AKA, CDROM Softcopy manuals) but it's not any place where
> I've looked today...
>
> And even more annoying is that there's absolutely NO online F1 help on
> this command or any of the parms....and the current sys is 4.3....(just
> didn't have the 4.3 frizbee at home this weekend....:)
>
> ...and Lord knows they've butchered the sys ops manual down to a thin
> joke...and most of the other manuals on the 4.2 frizbee are from v3rx
> days!
>
> TIA...
>
> Don in DC...who needs to do a dksbal...:)
>

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