"IBM wide effort to right-size content" - really?
Personally I don't see the issue with having multiple versions of
content available. That should at least cover the supported versions,
but there is also value in having old versions. For example, maybe you
have a SYS1.PARMLIB member last changed in 2006 and you want to see what
the defaults and recommendations were back then before you update it.
For the online search and linking impacts, there are simple solutions.
Google allows you to define a canonical URL for similar pages e.g.
different releases:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
So when a new release comes out, all you need to do is update the
rel=canonical for the old version to point to the new release and Google
will update all the search results to point to the latest release...
which is probably what you want.
On 15/06/2018 8:44 AM, Susan Shumway wrote:
Hi all. We've been following all the comments here and elsewhere about the
removal of the z/OS V2R1 content from KC and have been assessing the situation.
-- IBM recognizes the need to improve our client's experience to find relevant
content associated with your IBM products and services. To address this, we
have embarked on a multi-phased, IBM wide effort to right-size content, improve
search capability and enhance technical content assets. During this process,
you may find that some of the content has been moved to new locations. We
appreciate your patience as we move forward. --
To support this effort, we recently un-published V2R1 content. However, even
though it is still available in the often preferred PDF and KC4z formats, it is
now apparent that searching for any z/OS content online is often yielding
unexpected and understandably frustrating results. (Note that your valuable
feedback is reinforcing our focus on continued efforts to build and redirect
indexing for improved Google search.)
Therefore, we're reinstating the entire V2R1 product documentation library in
KC. We'll also learn from this experience and more carefully focus on online
search and linking impacts when un-publishing KC content in the future.
Watch for the return of the V2R1 KC content by the end of today. In the
meantime, we'll continue to make available all the other content formats listed
on
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1/en/homepage.html
. As always, see the z/OS Internet Library at
https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary
for links to all releases and formats of the z/OS content.
-Sue Shumway
--
Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
+61 413 302 386
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