Their web stuff is run by a bunch of kids in some other country. They don’t understand what they have, and don’t much care. There are horror stories about things like the CE parts ordering site being down for a week at a time, because the person who understood it left and they had to figure out how it worked.
Not your father's IBM by a long shot. Very sad. On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 10:59 PM Lionel B. Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil you are correct - after I cleared cache/cookies/history from Chrome > things now work. > > One would think that IBM would have this situation addressed but perhaps 5 > 9's isn't something they care about any longer. > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you > are, reputation merely what others think you are." - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of > Phil Smith III > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2021 7:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: FW: IBM RFE's Broken > > Lionel, > > > > Try another browser, and/or one where you can clear cookies. IBM's sites > are > horribly fragile and often misbehave if you have a bad cookie. Firefox is > my > main browser; Chrome is my backup. When things seem banjaxed, I use Edge, > where I don't care if I have to delete cookies etc. > > > > If that is the problem, at least in Firefox you can tell which cookies were > used most recently. Leaving it idle for a minute or two, then trying, then > looking, usually lets you whack the cookies that are confusing it. Haven't > tried the same in Chrome. > > > > HTH. Really pathetic that so many sites don't have decent fallback when > they > don't like a cookie. IBM is not the only one. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
