Re: V5R1 Install Changes

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Bale wrote:

> >Basically, we couldn't do everything needed
> >at V5R1, so we staged the implementation.
>
> JMHO, But it seems to me that Software Installation is CRITICAL enough that
> we shouldn't have to deal with IBM "implementing in stages".  I wonder how
> Jeff Crosby feels about this.  So we can figure, maybe, that the v5r2
> installation "manual" will be self-contained and complete?  Or maybe not?

It leaves me PO'ed.  Let's see, I want to install V5R1.  Can I
"implement in stages"?  I don't think so.  How can they possibly think
they can make it better by breaking it up?  It's like they're trying to
'modularize' by breaking every piece of info into a separate document.

The Infocenter is not getting better, it's getting worse.  And I told
the Infocenter people in no uncertain terms at the last COMMON Expo.
Watch them not show up in Nashville.

After all these years after IBM quit printing the hardcopy manuals, I
have yet to see a coherent strategy, let alone something actually
useful.  From Softcopy to Library Reader to Infocenter it literally gets
harder every year to find the specific info I'm looking for.  It still
boggles my mind that I can get 5,000 hits to a search and not one item
on the first 10 pages has anything to do with what I want.  I simply
don't know how they can make a search engine that bad even if they
tried.

I can't believe I actually miss the Library Reader.  And no, I don't
want the hardcopy manuals back.

Someday I'll tell you what I really think of Infocenter.  No more
holding back.

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
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