RE: IBM Sales Manual

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Pat:

Best suggestion I've seen so far has been to make sure you have at least JRE SE 
v1.4.1_02. There might be later ones. That's the latest I have on my W2K with 
NS 7.1 and it works fine; one or two earlier ones also worked with NS 7.x.

It seems that IBM websites often try to use the latest and greatest little 
twists that Microsoft can come up with, and non-IE browsers can stumble. It 
feels like they're trying to force me to use IE at times and even the latest IE 
with the latest patches. So far, I've barely stayed ahead with stretches here 
and there where IE was all that would work. InfoCenter was particularly bad for 
NS 6.x.

I read about IBM's commitment to investment protection while advancing the 
iSeries. Nagging little issues such as these websites really make me wonder how 
pervasive that commitment is within IBM as a whole; that is, does "IBM" even 
understand the concept? It can't possibly be that hard to test the sites using 
alternative browsers. At the very least there could be a notice to update your 
JRE, but what I get when problems occur is something like what you saw -- an 
erroneous suggestion or usually just a blank or hung page.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. IBM Sales Manual (Pat Barber)
>
>For Years... I have used to the Sales Manual to find most
>any info needed on hardware or software....
>
>Because of a recent "upgrade" to W/2000 and Netscape 7.2,
>it would appear that it's no longer available....
>
>http://www-3.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIAccess?buttonpressed=DET001PT099&timestamp=9999999999&DET001PGL002=DET001PEF012&appname=IBMLinkRedirect
>
>The redirect screen tells me to turn on Java and reload.
>As far as I can tell, Java is "on", but it refuses to let
>me get past the "selections"....
>
>
>BUT....I tried it with IE and voila .... it works.

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