RE: Do the people that work on the IBM Info Center actually eve rtest their work???

Hmm, the DDS manual is pretty easy to get to from the reg Info Center page.
I've bookmarked the v5r1 English language entry page so I don't have to go
through choosing my OS version and preferred language.  From there it's
three clicks in the navigation frame--"Database and file systems," "DB2 UDB
for iSeries," "Manuals and Redbooks."  I have to do more than that to get to
some files on my own hard drive.  I've been looking at spool file apis this
week and was amazed how easy it is to get to real information.  The search
capability within the manuals is not as good as the Book Manager version,
but most manuals are easy to find.  Between Code400 help (WDSC or whatever
they'll call it next week), which contains the DDS Manual, BTW,  and Info
Center I find I can look up most things I want without a lot of effort.  Try
the advanced search in Info Center, it enables you to narrow your search to
areas where you think the information might be.  It's not perfect, but it's
so much better than it was a couple of years ago that there's no comparison.
I think it's gotten to useable status.   

This is the v5r1 entry page:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 6:50 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Do the people that work on the IBM Info Center actually
> ever test their work???
> 
> 
> what is the address?  (I want to see how many lurches I have 
> to take to get
> to the DDS manual.) 
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> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 22:57:49
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Do the people that work on the IBM Info Center 
> actually ever
> test their work???
>  
> Let me recommend the better search facility at the iSeries 
> Support page. It 
> includes InfoCenter in its domain, as well as Knowledge Base, 
> PTFs, APARs, 
> Redbooks, and "Other resources" - really quite good. Kudos to 
> the team that 
> put it together.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Vern
>  
> At 07:59 PM 5/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 08:37 05/06/2003, Pridip Shah wrote:
> >
> >>It seems to be by design.
> >
> >Actually, I think they've made substantial progress. I've 
> found a few 
> >things on the site recently. I may actually start going 
> directly to IBM 
> >and stop using Google to search ibm.com as a first choice... 
> Naah, that's 
> >premature.
> >
> >
> >Pete Hall
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