Re: STRINFSKR -- MIDRANGE-L

The main problem that I have with the Internet is finding 
the darn book.  And so many are being moved out of the 'V4R4' 
into 'Information Center' but several are 'in transition' and 
are in neither.  I have to look in V4R3 to find them.  For 
example, many of the API books.  Trying to search by API name 
is undoable unless you go back to V4R3.  Someone suggested 
using News/400 but I am still sitting at the signon screen.





barsa2@ibm.net on 04/20/2000 03:20:57 PM
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At 09:34 AM 04/20/2000 +0200, you wrote:

Hi,

A few salient points:

1.      Infoseeker should have been named Infosucker.  It was so overhead 
intensive that it was ridiculous.

2.      IBM's current strategy of books over the Internet is far 
superior.  You can get into an HTML version of the book for a quick lookup, 
or download a .PDF version of the book just as IBM would have printed 
it.  (Despite the fact that IBM announced a decision to get completely out 
of the printing business, last week.  Note that this is hearsay, and I have 
no official confirmation from IBM.)

The Internet strategy is fairly well documented in the talk that I do at 
COMMON called "ABC's of System Management".  If you would like a copy of 
the talk, send me private mail at my private address listed in the 
signature of this document.  Requests to this address (my midrange-l 
address) will not be answered (or else David would kill me).

3.      A bypass solution for Infoseeker use in V4R4 was previously posted 
to the list, but if you try it (which I did),  you will find that none of 
the IBM supplied books are there.  So it would still be useful if you 
authored your own books.

4.      Lastly, get a life.  Infoseeker was a poor product 
implementation.  It performed poorly, although it worked well on a 5250 
workstation, which is the only thing that I use as a workstation for keying 
on the 400, because the PC keyboard does not have the proper look and feel.

Al


>----- Original Message -----
>From: <techsupport@basspro.com>
>Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:28 AM
>Subject: STRINFSKR
>
>
> > Since upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 we can't access STRINFSKR.  How do I get
>it
> > back?  I'm being flooded by calls from programmers who are used to having
> > it.
>
>Paul,
>
>Here's a tech doc describing how to revitalize STRINFSKR:
>
>http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/fd9885170ed46f758625
>680b00020373/7d5c1ba3e9d39016862567e2004f8a91?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,strin
>fskr
>
>Best regards,
>Carsten Flensburg
>
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