RE: DSKBAL... ---> Online/Softcopy info

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think someone has tried to be very smart, but instead has ruined a
system that wasn't any good to start with. Even the organisation of the
manuals on the Softcopy CD's wasn't great, but this is much, much worse.
I feel sorry for anybody who wants to find out a real piece of
information. By the time they find it, it will be time to upgrade to the
next release!

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 2:53 PM
>>> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>>> Subject: Re: DSKBAL... ---> Online/Softcopy info
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I've also noticed that the IBM site that has the manuals 
>>> online no longer has many popular manuals under V4R4.  If 
>>> you click on the manual you get a worthless one page PDF 
>>> presentation.  Then I go back to the V4R3 online manuals 
>>> and they are there.  Time for everyone to flood the webmaster?
>>> 
>>> Check out:
>>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
>>> Look under the shelf Integrated Database and File System.
>>> Look at SQL Programming
>>> The online V4R4 is worthless.  I tried it.  Went to the 
>>> assigned URL.  Try to search on SELECT.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is what I sent when I clicked on feedback:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To:  rchclerk@us.ibm.com
>>> Subject:  
>>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
>>> 
>>> I tried the 'new' method of infocenter.  I was looking up a 
>>> SQL technique.  
>>> So I went to the web site
>>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
>>> and selected the V4R4 version of SQL programming.  Much to 
>>> my surprise I got 
>>> a one page PDF file instead of the familiar online version 
>>> of the book.  I 
>>> clicked on the URL in this page.  I tried to use the new 
>>> format.  I did a 
>>> search on SELECT.  I received no hits regarding the SELECT 
>>> statement in SQL.  
>>> In fact none of the entries were remotely related to SQL.  
>>> Please abandon 
>>> this and provide a solution instead.  If you can't come up 
>>> with anything 
>>> better, then go back to the old format.
>>> 
>>> I ended up going back to the V4R3 site to get useful information.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Group Dekko Services, LLC
>>> Rob Berendt, CCP
>>> PO Box 2000
>>> Kendallville IN 46755
>>> rob@dekko.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> rp@rogerpence.com on 08/08/99 10:25:20 PM
>>> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>>> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>>> cc:  
>>> Fax to:     
>>> Subject:    Re: DSKBAL...
>>> 
>>> Don--
>>> 
>>> Check this out
>>> 
>>> http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/performance/v4upgrade.html
>>> 
>>> it lists the PTFs needed down to V4R1 and provides a smattering of
>>> documentation. IBM just doesn't get it with the docs. Have 
>>> you noticed that
>>> the V4R4 softcopy library doesn't even include the SQL 
>>> manuals now! Gotta go
>>> somewhere else now. Geeze. Note to IBM: you can keep track 
>>> of this stuff
>>> with a computer--get one!
>>> 
>>> rp
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
>>> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, 08 August, 1999 4:57 PM
>>> Subject: DSKBAL...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> >
>>> > Is it my blindness and fat fingers or is this command 
>>> just not documented
>>> > anywhere worth a damn?  I thought it was on 4.2 and 
>>> should be on my
>>> > useless frizbee (AKA, CDROM Softcopy manuals) but it's 
>>> not any place where
>>> > I've looked today...
>>> >
>>> > And even more annoying is that there's absolutely NO 
>>> online F1 help on
>>> > this command or any of the parms....and the current sys 
>>> is 4.3....(just
>>> > didn't have the 4.3 frizbee at home this weekend....:)
>>> >
>>> > ...and Lord knows they've butchered the sys ops manual 
>>> down to a thin
>>> > joke...and most of the other manuals on the 4.2 frizbee 
>>> are from v3rx
>>> > days!
>>> >
>>> > TIA...
>>> >
>>> > Don in DC...who needs to do a dksbal...:)
>>> >
>>> 
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