RE: V5R1 Install Changes

[Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff to Jeff ... to add my voice to the protest ...

InfoCenter looks great to those mis-fortunates who have to use the flipping
thing.
Much as the IBM Library Reader is a tad old-fashioned in design by modern
standards, it knocks the spots off InfoCenter.
The searching and 'personal bookshelf' features were (are) a pleasure to use
by comparison to InfoCenter.
.PDFs are ok, for viewing and printing, but I have yet to be able to search
a bookshelf of .PDF manuals.

Come on IBM, give us back our .BOO and .BKS files ... P L E A S E.

Jeff Bull

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@dilgardfoods.com]
Sent: 18 March 2002 21:50
To: Midrange Mailing List
Subject: V5R1 Install Changes


In the mists of my memory, I think someone has complained about this
before, but here goes.

MODES(*RANT *VENT)

Does anyone know why IBM removed Chapter 3 ("Preparing to Install
Software") from SC41-5120 Software Installation and put in in the
Infocenter?  In prior versions all that info was contained in 1
document, the Software Installation manual, where it belonged.  This put
everything in one manual for installing a new release.

Now, instead I have to get a bunch of HTML from the Infocenter.  And it
isn't contained in one organized document, I had to press PRINT and BACK
umpteen gazillion times.  If it's going to be in the Infocenter, at
least make it printable as a PDF or something.

But why remove it from the manual in the first place?  It seems so
ludicrous to me that I must be missing something obvious to everyone
else.  Either that or IBM is purposely trying to make the iSeries so
hard that it takes IBM Global Services to fix everything after you're
done.  Sheesh, IBM doesn't need competition to kill the iSeries, they'll
do it themselves.  The lab people need to get out into the real world
and breathe some clear air for awhile.

MODES(*CLEARALL)

I feel better now. <g>

--
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.

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