Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #874

[JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

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We've managed to enter the wrong password to enter SST for the QSECOFR
profile 3 times and it's now disabled the profile.  Any idea how we can
re-enable it.  The *user* profile for QSECOFR is fine and shows as
*ENABLED,
it's only the SST one that's locked out.

We can get into SST with other profiles.

Any ideas?  A quick scan of the un-information centre wasn't fruitful.

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*RANTON
The information center is a classic case of IBM listening, but to the wrong
people.  Back in the good old days when the only thing going was the
library reader, we complained the search engine wasn't useful.  So they
went to the web based design.  IBM spent millions bringing in people to try
the new design.  They filmed and recorded every key stroke as the subjects
tried to find stuff.  I am convinced that when they finally arrived at a
time when no one could find anything, they decided it was ready for
release.  All we really wanted was a context sensitive search engine
spanning all of the books in the library.  Some goofball at IBM decided
that we were not smart enough to know what we wanted and we now have this.
Be careful what you ask for, IBM just might be listening.  Can I have book
manager back (complete with all manuals) PLEASE!!!

PS I was one of the test subjects on their quest to make everything
un-findable.  We told them it was bad three years ago.  They made it worse
than it was then, although I'm not sure how that was possible.
*RANTOFF


Jim Oberholtzer

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