Re: Do the people that work on the IBM Info Center actually evertest their work???

--- Booth Martin <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> what is the address?  (I want to see how many lurches I have to take to get
> to the DDS manual.) 

No, Booth.  This is the problem I've always had with >searching< (NOTE: I said 
SEARCHING) on
InfoCenter.  To my knowledge, it is impossible to search for something in a 
given manual.  If
there is a way, it is a well-kept secret.  You want to find the syntax on DDS 
EDTWRD?  Your
results will include hits from across the library.  Yes, the advanced search 
allows you to narrow
down the areas, but where do I select to search only the DDS Reference?

It would also be nice if the advanced search would remember the categories and 
subcategories
selected, instead of forcing me to select these each and every time I go there. 
 It seems like
this would be the perfect job for a cookie.

My normal route to finding something I know is in a given manual is to go to 
iSeriesNetwork's
DocFinder.  (Many thanks to Chuck Lundgren and iSeriesNetwork!!!)  But, I find 
it rather pathetic
that I have to use this route.

For DDS Reference, the RPG manuals, and CL Reference, I have downloaded the 
PDFs and, because we
have the full Adobe product here, we are able to build indexes on the contents. 
 But even then, it
is painstaking and time-consuming to search a manual because Acrobat doesn't 
give you a list of
hits within a document to choose from, unlike InfoCenter or even that golden 
oldie, Library Reader
(Softcopy).

Hopefully, Vern has found the keys to the kingdom.  I await his reply.

- Dan

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