Bob, In answer to your question... I was serious when I asked for PDFs. I've been to customer sites where I do not get local access to the internet (even touching their keyboards is a major sin). I've had to access the web, through my phone, attached to my laptop. Some IBM web sites were taking over 1 minutes to display a page. When this page has something like just
1. Click here for required parameters 2. Click here for optional parameters It is really frustrating. I like to run with things on my local machine. I also like to annotate, and bookmark within documents. Some of my paper manuals had lots of different coloured stickies for my favourite topics. Also with IBM documents you get many hits - because it searches the whole of IBM or book shelf and it takes you many seconds to find the relevant one. It used to give you hits for 4 different releases of the same "manual" When HTLM has caught up, I'll look at it again. So yes, PDF for me please. Colin On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 14:37, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > "Are you being facetious?", in other words. Facetism (which is how I > spell "fa-SEE-shiz-m") is closely related to sarcasm, except the tone is > serious; the hearer is expected to understand that the intent is not. > > Also, I suppose, sarcasm usually has an element of hostility in it; > facetism often doesn't. At least that's how I distinguish the two. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their > disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites....Society cannot > exist unless a controling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, > and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is > ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate > minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -Edmund Burke, > 1791 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of zMan > Sent: Saturday, November 6, 2021 18:37 > > "facetism"?? fetishism? fascism? fetishist fascism? (is that last one > redundant?) > > --- On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:45 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I can't tell, Colin: Is this facetism? Some months ago, or maybe a > > year, I found I was no longer able to access the on-line HTMLs; I had > > to content myself with downloaded PDFs (and hope that I'd remember to > > download the updates as often as necessary). It is nice, I agree, to > > know that the documentation I've remembered to download is at my > > fingertips even when my internet connection is down. Not so great to > > know that I can't look up something new during that time. And I > > really liked the HTML search function; the analogue in PDFs isn't as > useful. > > > > I supposed that PDF downloads are the only option, nowadays. Are you > > saying the on-line HTMLs are still available somewhere? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Colin Paice > > Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:03 > > > > I find the IBM Doc site very slow (10 seconds to get into it) - not a > good > > advertisement for IBM servers. (most of the time "scripting") > > I hope they provide PDF's rather than just web pages. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
