Re: Improved Search improved

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern, I hesitate to say anything because I know these folks are working
their butts off to get it right.  I am very supportive and appreciative of
what they are doing.  Adding in the name change of AS/400 to iSeries has got
to be the straw that broke their logical backs.

But gosh, I wish we could give them a 1/2 dozen real-world examples so they
could test for themselves to see if they are answering real questions.  My
choice for a question would be "What's the CL keyword to find the number of
records in a physical file?"
  
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:07:49
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Improved Search improved
 
In response to some of our questions, complaints, the search engine on 
IBM's support site <www.iseries.ibm.com/support> has been improved. As I 
understand it, upwards of 75 IBM sites are searched. You get there from the 
top of the above page, where it says "iSeries Support (Public)". It now 
includes Information Center and something they call "More Technical 
Resources". And if you pick the "Select iSeries Search Options" and press 
enter, you get the page where you can select which areas you want searched.

Check it out - I haven't compared its returns for InfoCenter with those if 
InfoCenter itself, might be interesting.

I did try a search on "odbc driver" and got a bunch of references to the 
Linux driver. I've already responded that I thought it odd for these to 
come first - most of us don't use this item. All the headings were the 
same, but content was different - no real duplicates. But the relative 
wight of things may depend on the source, and that' varies wildly around 
IBM, as I understand.

Anyway, check it out - this is the result of a very responsive party at 
IBM. I've not checked if he is OK with all of us sending him email - I'll 
check and let you know.


Vern Hamberg