<sarcasm> love it </sarcasm> sounds like another example of what in German is called a Schlimmbesserung: an improvement which makes things worse. welcome to the modern world: new, and certainly NOT "improved". why the hell can't "they" just leave things alone?
/s/ tuco bonno; Graduate, College of Conflict Management; University of SouthEast Asia; "I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! " -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Blythe Reid Sent: Wednesday, 11 December, 2013 06:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Lookat The oficial wording: *LookAt is being sunset with the announcement of the new version of zOS. You can continue to access older releases of messages at the website AS-IS. Neither the site nor the content will continue to be updated. The Information Centers are the current IBM tactical means to search for all technical documentation including messages. Soon these will be replaced with the IBM strategic Knowledge Centers.* According to this we should still be able to access it, but it won't be updated. Maybe the redirection is just a temporary problem. I hope so, as it's a bit of a blow to lose it. It really is a useful tool. I had to look at a U4093 (Language Environment) abend yesterday. With LookAt I had the message text and reason code explanation in seconds. If I type U4093 into the z/OS 1.13 Infocenter the search result is useless. Maybe buried down there somewhere is a description of the abend but it would take so long to find it it's quicker to go to the LE messages manual. Regards, John On 10 December 2013 20:26, Kevin Minerley <k60ek...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Here is the "official" wording we have had on the LookAt website for > some months now: > > LookAt is being sunset with the announcement of the new version of zOS. > You can continue to access older releases of messages at the website AS-IS. > Neither the site nor the content will continue to be updated. The > Information Centers are the current IBM tactical means to search for > all technical documentation including messages. Soon these will be > replaced with the IBM strategic Knowledge Centers. > > > So from v2r1 forward, you really should go to the zOS Library page > (currently corporate has but a re-direct from the old LookAt site to here): > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/index.html > > which has the Information Center and will eventually have the > Knowledge Center. > > We still keep the "Messages and Codes" extended shelf with ALS indexed > PDFS current at the zOS Library site (at least until Knowledge Center > comes along), so you can get a near BookManager-like search on the message > books > from the PDFs. You can also download this shelf from the IBM Publications > Center. The order number is SK5T-9251. > > Obviously this affects zVM and zVSE as well. > > Hope you enjoyed your years of using LookAt! > > Kevin Minerley > LookAt architect since its inception > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Blythe Reid, Técnico de Sistemas de z/OS y de Sistemas Transaccionales, Barcelona, España. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
