I started in this business when we had SLSS’s and IBM was literally the largest publisher in the world
The down side it was a lot of paper Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On May 25, 2025, at 12:31, Lennie Bradshaw <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
