I didn't realize the issue was that big, when I lost my temper about the WLM website. It seems a opened a can of worms, although the Dutch version of this expression seems more appropriate: I seem to have opened up a cesspool.
Kees. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Conley > Sent: 08 June, 2018 4:01 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Where is the WLM website??? > > On 6/7/2018 12:02 PM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >> I'll pass these comments on to the initiative leads so that they're > > aware of the specific problems and can hopefully direct resolutions > ASAP. > > > > > > > > <warning> > > if your faint-hearted, don't read on. > > </warning> > > > > > > > > > > <rant on, again> > > Someone better go off and kick'em in the ... and tell those useless > m.... to go and look for another job. The Internet lives from links, > from stable links. IBM has been the world leader in restructuring its > websites and re-breaking links for years. But least the important ones > to us technicians have survived so far. > > > > > > I wouldn't have imagined that someone can be so dumb and do what IBM > seems to have done now. > > > > > > IBM is currently making it worse and worse for me to do my job. I need > to be able to find information. Every valuable redpiece, every valuable > redbook, every valuable presentation has links in it, useful links. If > IBM is willingly breaking those links, the I understand that IBM is > willingly sabotaging to our work. > > </rant on, again> > > > > > > > > I had not intent to offend anyone, except those responsible for this > disaster. > > > > > > I've gotten upset for quite some time whenever I was looking us > something on IBM site. This has to get out once. > > > > > > On the contrary Peter, your comments are mild compared to the damage IBM > has done to us with this latest debacle. I was wondering earlier this > week why IBM's largest clients would consider taking highly sensitive > data off a mainframe and move it to an off-prem public cloud. I'm > wondering no longer. > > 1. Red Alert in January for service certs, when anyone at IBM paying > attention should have known weeks in advance. > 2. GDPR changes to upload data to IBM given to us 1 DAY (!!) before > implementation in May. 1 DAY! Again, anyone at IBM paying attention > should have given us many weeks notice of this change. > 3. Redesign IBM's web site so that all the technical links are broken, > and only marketing links remain. Brilliant strategy there. All that > served to do is alienate your existing clients and start them thinking > about AWS if they hadn't done so already. > > These things happen because many parts of IBM have stopped caring. > Somebody at IBM thinks they'll get new customers with this wholesale web > site redesign, but I think it's going to backfire on them. It's going > to make folks like us less able to do our jobs. I fail to see how IBM's > web site redesign benefits anyone, least of all IBM. And before you say > "Github", that was supposed to be an ORDERLY migration, not a > pull-the-plug-now and we'll get the stuff to Github whenever. > > I don't know who's minding the store at IBM, but they're asleep at the > swtich right now. This does not bode well for the future of the > mainframe. > > Regards, > Tom Conley > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
