Hi Peter, I agree that the product vendor has the primary responsibility of providing clear, accurate, and readily available doc, but I still like to have matching doc at the level I install and with a copy of my install notes, along with anything else that might come in handy if I need to respond to a problem while away from the shop.
I like PrimoPDF, and Acrobat, and several of the others. Your preference and mileage may vary, of course. There are a number of others available as well. Some are free, a good number more are very reasonable. Having a USB stick of docs can also be very useful. I am particularly fond of having a PDF that matches the product install level, along with any other levels that might be useful. While I would like to see IBM's product libraries full and very reliably robust, with all of the levels we could ever want or need, ( even if we are behind in out product updates ), I can't imagine that every doc for everything will always be fingertip available. It does take some extra work, but to me, it sure beats scrambling to find the doc I need when I need it. That goes double for any shop related settings or configuration doc. Just my 2 cents. YMMV may vary, of course. Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2018, at 11:25 PM, Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > I'm not a SHARE member, but I understand SHARE does have some influence in > what IBM does and does not do. I would appreciate if SHARE would immediately > go strongly after IBM for what they are currently doing to their web content. > I'm not in a position to do that, unfortunately. I know there are members on > this list who have a deeper connection to SHARE. Can any of you help us, > please? > > > > This is sabotage! Sabotage to IBM's clients! > > > > For the last couple of years, IBM (and other companies) have forced us > towards the internet. Acquiring information in usable formats such as > Bookmaster or PDFs was made harder and harder, if you were lucky you could > find a place to download documentation. But the longer the more, > documentation became available as webpages only, without the possibility to > save a copy locally for later reference. > > > And now they feel comfortable to break that internet. Now they feel > comfortable to remove content of products still in service. > > > I have no confidence in my own management whatsoever, so I won'd even try to > tell then what is going on, and ask them for help by approaching IBM. It's a > waste of time. And this is why I'm hoping for SHARE to support us in this > matter > > > > > -- > Peter Hunkeler > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
