For the link I posted, for a search on <binder>, the first 8 hits are relevant 
hits for "our" binder: an options reference, a control statement reference, an 
article on migrating from the link editor to the binder, a discussion of the 
binder API, binder inputs, ... From any one of the referenced pages it is easy 
to go up a level and from there to anything you want to know about the binder.

And as I said earlier, you can "expand" each of the links right there on the 
search page, so it is easy to tell what is relevant without getting lost down 
an Internet rabbit hole. You can also do a revised search from the results 
page: no need to go back and then start a new search.

Only negative I have found on the expansions is a little hard to describe. In 
the Expand window, any links are not live, so you can't follow links from 
there; you have to actually click on the main link and actually navigate to the 
page. For the control blocks links it adds one more step, because that first 
page is often just three (dead) links: programming interface, heading, and 
mapping. It would be nice to be able to go from there straight to the mapping.

But that's a nit. I am totally sold.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 3:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LOOKAT gone?

On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 10:31:13 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>And as a side benefit, it does in fact work very nicely from an Android 
>device (and presumably also from an iOS device). (But unlike Doc Buddy, 
>not
>off-line.)
>
>And also, as I said in another thread, it works for "everything," not 
>just messages.
> 
I wonder how it compares to Google "<search terms> site:ibm.com", which I've 
been relying on?  Thanks for the suggestion.  An unfortunate "search terms" for 
site:ibm.com is "program management" which gives a basket of deplorable 
MBA-stuff but hardly any binder hits on the first page.

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