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

I may be missing the point, but I got a manual over 500 pages, downloaded as 
something under 2meg bytes and it printed very nicely via the freeware Adobe 
Acrobat reader.  Truely amazing stuff.

Rob Berendt wrote:

> 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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> Subject:        Re: DSKBAL...
>
> 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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