RE: Infocenter searches (Not!)

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>We've been talking about how bad the
>Infocenter is, especially searches.
>So I decided to try a search from
>the Infocenter page for V5R1
>(note that says V5R1).
>
>I decided to search on "WRKOBJPDM"
>and see what I got.
>
>I got the following 7 hits:

-snip undesirable hits-

And the single word WRKOBJPDM occurs in every single one of those hits.
Read on to see where I'm going with this...

>Only the 4th one has anything to do
>with the WRKOBJPDM command, the 7th
>one marginally.

I offer the following only to explain what has helped me.  Having had to
live with web searches that return millions of hits, I've learnt the hard
way not to search for a single word; it's exasperating.  They have a program
that runs and picks 'likely' words to stuff in the machine index.  If
WRKOBJPDM occurs a thousand times, it gets stuffed in the index a thousand
times.  It's up to the search engine to filter that stuff out of the raw
index, and I have taken to the notion that *I* am an integral part of that
filtering.  Is that a bright idea?  Beats me, but it's how I've got it to
work _for me_.

If you are looking for the WRKOBJPDM command description, try "wrkobjpdm
command" including the quotes.  Or "work with objects using PDM".  Note that
the various PDM commands are NOT in the CL manual because they belong to a
separately licensed program.

If you _know_ where in the manual hierarchy to look, don't search -
navigate.

I went through the 'Man I HATE this!' phase several times.  I thought the
book manager was... well, what I thought is unprintable.  I am never really
comfortable with any form of soft copy, but I deal with it.  It's incredibly
unlikely that IBM is going to abandon the concept, so instead of fighting it
I have worked as hard as possible to learn the new system's limitations and
work around them.  I've clicked and sent in suggestions and I've struggled
to become more proficient.  Until I 'let go' of my old ideas of how to get
at information I was a consistent failure and I guess I'm not smart enough
to do anything other than abandon my old ways and try to work with the new.

I only relate this in the hopes that someone else will be able to benefit
from my mistakes.
  --buck