On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 10:48:02 -0500, zMan wrote:
>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.
>
I heard George Carlin tell the joke (it might be older):
"Why does a dog lick *** *****?"
"Because he can!"
You can tell when an application is created by people who need to use it.
In some fairness, the IBM z/OS Doc web pages work better than a few months
before.
Tie "Change Version" pulldown always works. I'm not sure it always
opens the version requested, but it doesn't 404.
But it still takes two clicks of the browser Back control to get back.
And I found only by trial and error the "<" to collapse the ToC sidebar.
The 2.5 PDF doc archive lacks the "index.pdx", valuable in 2.4.
Inter-document hyperlinks don't work in 2.5 as they did in 2.4/
I sill need to make a couple RCFs.
>Not your father's IBM by a long shot. Very sad.
The product has become so complex that simple documentation is impossible.
And compatibility is a burden. Things need not only work right, but also the
way they used to; sometimes conflicting requirements.
-- gil
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