It's not just IBM. There seems to be a race to the bottom in web page design. Glitz is more important than, e.g., ease of use, performance, reliability. Take entry and validation of, e.g., credit card numbers, e-mail addresses, names, ZIP codes; it is bog standard to not tell the user the required format and to reject valid characters.
Not that "everybody else does it" is a valid excuse. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Allan Staller [00000387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Knowledge Center down? Classification: Confidential The "new tools" are neither as reliable, functional or available as those the are replacing. I have been sayig this for the last 10 yrs (or more). -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Hank Oerlemans Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 4:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Knowledge Center down? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] How many online systems have IBM put out there now ? Just when it's all seems stable it changes and we go around again. I could mention the stacks of manuals I started with that never went down :-) but think of the trees. Damn ! Am I that old ? I'm gonna download the pdf collection for now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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