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I would never complain about helping someone, but they need to
investigate something as far as their skill level permits. A number of
questions appear to be posted because someone was too lazy to look.
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I agree with you, Bob, on both counts. We gained the level of experience
and knowledge we have by reading real manuals, experimenting and making
mistakes, and analyzing all the results, good and bad. It's harder and
harder to do that as time goes on, because businesses have higher and
higher expectations, but it's all a very important part of learning.
I have to admit to some confusion as to where to look for things
sometimes, because our Big Blue friends keep changing the titles of
manuals and moving content around, apperantly in an attempt to group
similar functions. That is, in part, why I like BookManager Read so much
better than the Library Reader; the search functions SEEM so much more
effective, at least to me. Never mind that I've never been able to make
Library Reader work on my own PC because I've never found the "right"
level of JAVA. My experiences on other peoples' PC's may be partly due
to setup issues, but they all rave about Library Reader and I don't. And
don't even ask about OEM vendors' documentation. Some is very good and
some is absolutely abysmal. I personally think that Innovation has some
of the best, and BMC some of the worst. YMMV.
It's unfortunate that colleges so seldom teach any mainframe skills;
that means that us "greybeards", all too soon to be "whitebeards", are
the only teachers left to pass on these skills.
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