I have found AI to be really useful in negotiating the wealth of IBM documentation. I can ask AI a question that is pretty detailed and get a meaningful response. It is not always right, but I can then discuss it and refine it with the AI and find the correct answer. AI is not infallible, but it has the capacity to understand the reasoning process. I have simply been using MS Copilot. Lennie
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Estle Sent: 25 May 2025 16:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RTFM Steve, et all, You bring up a great point and one of my pet peeves. The "library of documentation" has gotten for the most part so dry and humdrum to review (not to mention the lenght of some of these docs (sometimes 1-2K pages - uggh). Speaking personally, I learn and whereever possible I learn from examples / samples. Great / usable examples / samples = great documentation. The more the better. Of course in the case of IBM, that typically means Redbooks but in traditional mainframe (ZOS, ZVM mainly) the number of Redbooks has been shrinking for years and suspect will continue in this direction. I also long for the day where I can use AI to quickly find and leverage the vast landscape of documentation and examples based on the vast experiences of all of us (Vendor, customers, web sites, Github, websites, CBT, etc.). To me that would be the holy grail to bring all this documentation together and for the vendors to please quit hiding it behind all these vendor firewalls (it's so annoying)... IBM, Broadcom, BMC, etc. please take heed and hopefully make a part of best practices imho. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
