RE: DSKBAL... ---> Online/Softcopy info

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you point a URL to the SQL area?  Going to http://www.as400.ibm.com/ 
is a sinking pit of quagmire and infinite loops.  It is hopeless to find 
anything, as I attested to earlier in my search for SQL information.






dmorris@plumcreek.com on 08/09/99 03:23:34 PM
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Colin & others,

I believe that many of the manuals have been migrated to the Information 
Center.  For example, the API manuals can now be found under the OS/400 
APIs link from the Programming topic.  From what I have seen most of them 
have made it over, but a few appear to have been lost in the shuffle.  The 
ILE C manuals appear to fall into the later category.  

I have seen the SQL manuals under database management.  They don't 
seem to be as integrated as some of the other manuals.

I have just started using the manuals in the information center but on the 
surface it appears to be better than book manager.  The book manager 
has always had problems that don't seem to be getting any better.

David Morris

>>> Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk> 08/09/99 08:47AM >>>
I think someone has tried to be very smart, but instead has ruined a
system that wasn't any good to start with. Even the organisation of the
manuals on the Softcopy CD's wasn't great, but this is much, much worse.
I feel sorry for anybody who wants to find out a real piece of
information. By the time they find it, it will be time to upgrade to the
next release!

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com] 
>>> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 2:53 PM
>>> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
>>> Subject: Re: DSKBAL... ---> Online/Softcopy info
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Group Dekko Services, LLC
>>> Rob Berendt, CCP
>>> PO Box 2000
>>> Kendallville IN 46755
>>> rob@dekko.com 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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