I *think* the way this works is that you should always bookmark and use the www.ibm.com URLS and remove the -304 -306 etc. I think the web pages are shared somehow among a whole bunch of servers and that is what causes the www-###.ibm.com format. If you include the number, then I think you are asking to go to a particular server. If you leave out the number, then you should get routed to whatever is up at the time.
--Roger Bolan "Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 09/05/2007 02:46 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: software support site down "Jim McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 9/5/07, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My old page still allows me to find ptfs: > > http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/z/zos/index.html > > > > Hope this helps, > > Kees. > > ********************************************************************** > > > Thanks Kees, that works fine. BTW, why do they have so many urls to access > the same thing. I suppose I should feel lucky that they do. > I don't understand that either, it looks like the wheel is being reinvented every 3 months, when they hire a new trainee. The chaos in the internet world is a great contrast with the mainframe world where I grew up in. This week I downloaded the latest documentation CD from BCM and saw they made a mess of it again. The CD contains a start-up PDF that launches the access to the entire CD, a nice idea. We copy the CD contents to our LAN and publish the launching application to our users. I complained many years ago that they changed the name of the launching PDF and I had to redistribute a new link each time and indeed they promised that the PDF would be called LAUNCH.PDF from then on. But not very much to my surprise the latest launcher is called "launch_66517.htm". This is not the kind of work that I am waiting for when installing a new Mainview release! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
