Sure, I know the Google trick, I use it often. But it is a shame, that IBM needs Google to guide its customers decently through their website.
Kees. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of van der Grijn, Bart (B) > Sent: 12 April, 2018 12:35 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CFSizer site move > > Kees, there used to be an IBM techdoc article where IBM admitted that > their search capabilities suck. The suggestion in the article was to use > google with a site:ibm.com tag. Not sure if the article is still there. > I did a google search on "cfsizer site:ibm.com" and the first hit seems > to be what you would expect. > > Bart > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 3:05 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CFSizer site move > > This email originated from outside of the organization. > > > Communication is not really the solution here. If every url in the IBM > site that was changed would be communicated to me, I would be flooded > and I would direct them immediately to the spam box. And by the time I > needed the cfsizer url-change info, I am sure I will not be able to find > it anymore. > > For fun, I tried to find cfsizer, as if I had a non-working link. > > I went to IBM.COM and for speed I typed cfsizer in the search box. I got > *300* matches. > Hoping that they were ordered on relevance, I went to the first hit > about Z mainframes, but it did not even contain the word "cfsizer". How > did this come up in the answers, this is not Facebook, is it, knowing > better than I do myself what I want to see. > Then second was a cfsizer APAR. > The third was a problem about ReporterPLUS (what is that), but again no > text "cfsizer" on the page. > Etc. since I had other things to do too today, I stopped after two pages > of results, but I had not found cfsizer yet. > > Then, on the IBM.COM site I went to 'Support', although it did was not > the first obvious selection in my opinion. In that search box I typed > cfsizer and this gave 490 results, all of them more or less related to > cfsizer, but as far as I could see, no link to *the* cfsizer page. > > That's the problem, if you have a huge, complex site like IBM, make it > at least well accessible. Each time I found a page, I store it in my > favorites, so I can find it back easily. Each time I have a broken link > on the IBM site, I am sure this will cost me a lot of time to find the > new one or I must hope that a colleague has already found it. > > Could you give me a useful way to find something (z/OS related) in > IBM.COM? > > Grtn, > Kees. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On > > Behalf Of Edward Finnell > > Sent: 11 April, 2018 20:51 > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: CFSizer site move > > > > "What we have here Luke is a failure to communicate" > > > > > > In a message dated 4/11/2018 1:33:58 PM Central Standard Time, > > nei...@us.ibm.com writes: > > > > > > But I'll be working on getting the various publications and websites > > that point to CFSizer updated with the new URL. Sorry for the > > inconvenience. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
