@Ann, "was this page helpful?" completely misses the point.

#1, a page could be helpful and also wrong. How does a reader report "the page 
had a lot of helpful info on it but paragraph 3 is misleading"?

#2, "helpful" is way too low a bar. IBM-MAIN is "helpful" and it's free. Google 
is "helpful" and it's free. Your customers are paying millions of dollars to 
run their mission-critical workload on your products, products that you tout as 
the best in the world. Your users deserve a better level of documentation than 
"helpful." Your official documentation ought to be darned near perfect. If 
you're going to do feedback with a pop-up the questions ought to be "was this 
page perfect? And if not, how could we make it better?"

Charles

On Thu, 18 May 2023 21:02:50 +0000, Farley, Peter <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>Thank you for that link Ann, but I quote from the page you sent:
>
>"You will not receive a direct response to your feedback."
>
>Why not?  Wouldn't a mechanism to engage in dialog about the documentation 
>error(s)/omission(s) be far more customer-friendly and responsive to customer 
>perceptions?
>
>Surely the volume of documentation suggestions/comments is not large enough 
>(even world-wide) for it to be cost-prohibitive for IBM to provide a dialog 
>mechanism of some kind and a team that responds in dialog with the customer, 
>even if it is only a simple message board.
>
>Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
>Ann DePaolo
>Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 4:51 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Documentation RCF entry and tracking proposal on idea portal - 
>please read and vote
>
>Hello Peter,
>
>For information on how to leave feedback for IBM product documentation, visit: 
>https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/about?topic=how-provide-feedback__;!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!MQTQaSBasGKRH1dMI40r-PHLzY7IKeOeAUqwQMNodxrx9x6Y09h-ASEYtfWkDUG8YCzmgwz8rrHe-_RD0w$
> .

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