It seems like IBM has decided on using github for the latest iteration.

https://github.com/IBM

https://github.com/cicsdev

https://cicsdev.github.io/

-----Original Message-----
>From: scott Ford <[email protected]>
>Sent: May 8, 2020 9:59 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!
>
>Cheryl,
>
>Some needs a build large indexable repository for tutorials, howto, code
>etc.
>I have always felt since no one know all the technical answers or aspects ,
>then a repository would help greatly.
>
>Scott
>
>
>
>On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:14 AM Lance D. Jackson <
>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Cheryl.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf
>> Of Cheryl Watson Walker
>> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 22:02
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> We'll I'm a little embarrassed. I was just told offline about a link that
>> Lionel Dyck posted here last October that described the coming of the
>> calamity that just occurred -
>> https://developer.ibm.com/dw-connections-sunset-faq/. (As a side note –
>> the creators of that FAQ weren’t even kind enough to create hot links for
>> all of the other portals. Web pages and hot links aren’t all that difficult
>> people!) The FAQ said that owners of content on DeveloperWorks could move
>> their content to other locations by the end of March. This is assuming that
>> they were still employed by IBM and had the time to move the content. Of
>> course, IBM could not provide them with the original content.
>>
>>
>>
>> We had posted almost 100 links in our Tuning Letter to useful material on
>> DeveloperWorks and now none of them work. It will take time, but I hope to
>> go through all of our links and reach out to the authors to find where they
>> are now posting items.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I went to the new website - https://www.ibm.com/community/, signed up,
>> and started looking at it. With the optional portals listed in the FAQ and
>> this new community website, it just seems like IBM wants to remove as much
>> technical information as possible and replace it with marketing. If anyone
>> knows how to search the new community website, please let me know. If I’m
>> not ready to buy a product, the community is not doing anything for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. – Aled – thanks for your post. I have always had the highest respect
>> for Timothy and Mark, and I really appreciate how much they support the
>> customers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Still a little bitter about the deletions…
>>
>> Cheryl
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cheryl Watson <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 12:39 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Cheryl Watson <[email protected]>
>> Subject: IBM Developerworks is gone!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Remember when IBM went through and deleted from their websites what they
>> considered "old" manuals and documentation? Well, they just did it again!
>> They've removed all the DeveloperWorks articles that have provided such
>> excellent information since its creation. And these aren't just OLD
>> articles. Even a link from three months ago is gone. All references to
>> DeveloperWorks are now directed to a nothing site. The DeveloperWorks
>> website contained amazing articles from some of the top developers in their
>> fields, many of whom are no longer still working at IBM. We understand that
>> IBM "furloughed" them, but they don't have to furlough their ideas.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm pleading with all of you who work for a large IBM customer to ask your
>> management to tell IBM to stop this idiotic practice. There is NO reason to
>> delete valuable information.
>>
>>
>>
>> If this is due to marketing wanting a new image, then they have no idea
>> what image they're creating.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please do this for all of us!
>>
>>
>>
>> All my best,
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheryl Watson
>>
>> Watson & Walker, Inc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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