For those who have not been following this discussion, IBM is on track to remove the RCF process as we have known it for forty or so years. Customers and ISVs will be limited to a Web pop-up “Was this helpful?” and if you answer No, you will be able to briefly justify that answer. There is also apparently now no path whatsoever for a customer to open a requirement against IBM documentation.
We need a way to provide formatted suggestions for improvements, clarifications or corrections to IBM manuals. If you would like that, then wishing and hoping and grumping will not make it happen. Here is what might make it happen: - You could start by replying with a simple +1 to this post. The IBM powers that be do not participate in this forum, but there is strong evidence that what happens here sometimes percolates in that direction. - You could vote for Peter Farley’s RFE. Find it here: https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3691 (apologies for any fold). - If you have an IBM rep at your shop, you could let him or her know. If you simply know an IBMer you could tell him or her nicely. - If you have contacts who are responsible at your shop for other products such as the languages, Db2, CICS, MQ and so forth, you could try to get them to chime in. Apparently one of the pushbacks from the documentation team is “IBM has 1200 products and our process works fine for all of them – what’s wrong with you z/OS people?” Thank you. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
