Re: Info Center -- MIDRANGE-L

Note - an **__IBMer__** will not use the search function if he has a choice -

At 04:12 PM 5/6/02 -0500, you wrote:

>I actually find "google" to be the best for searching the info
>center...really. Try it. It works well for me.
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>Patrick Botz
>Senior Software Engineer
>eServer Security Architect
>(507) 253-0917, T/L 553-0917
>email: botz@us.ibm.com
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>                       "Al Barsa/Barsa
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>For example:
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>I recently had an occasion to use a prompt override program for a command.
>I searched for over a half hour in the information center, got hundreds of
>irrelevant hits, and never found the data that I was looking for,
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>I walked down the hall, and got my V2R3 CL book (that was the last real
>release where we published manuals), and found the prompt override program
>section in 30 seconds.
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>Al
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>Al Barsa, Jr.
>Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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>                     Jeff Crosby
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>Anne Lucas wrote:
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> > Please provide me, in separate email to alucas@us.ibm.com, specific
> > problems on Info Center.  I have a list, but would like to get the
>details,
> > please.... have already forwarded your comments to date to the owner of
>the
> > program....   Thanks!
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>With all due respect, I think that's impossible.  To me, the problem is
>systemic.
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>Ever compile an RPG program and misspell a file name?  This causes a
>level "40" error and causes umpteen field names to be undefined and so
>many other errors via the domino effect that it's scary.  To try to find
>any other typos or errors at that point is a complete waste of time.
>Your only productive recourse is to correct the file name misspelling
>and compile again.
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>That's where I believe the Info Center is.  It is so disorganized,
>unintuitive, and convoluted that it's useless in it's present form.  I
>have to spend all my time and brainpower trying to figure out how the
>%@*# I'm going to find what I need instead of being able to focus on my
>problem.  If and when I ever find _anything_ that applies from the Info
>Center, I have lost all train of thought on what I was originally trying
>to do.
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>It's scary to me to believe the infocenter people don't already know the
>problems after all these years of us complaining.  I am really tired of
>being repeatedly asked to document the problems to no avail.
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>Until recently I thought I was the only one who was still using the V3R2
>Library Reader for reference.
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>I know you asked for the email to be to you, but I want to know whether
>others on the list think my response is out of line.
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>--
>Jeff Crosby
>Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
>P.O. Box 13369
>Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
>260-422-7531
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>The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
>the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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