On 7/27/06, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I beg to differ, Jim. Many list subscribers and I still regularly use the old green-screen IBMLink and will continue to do so until they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Hey, we *can* do sarcasm on 3270... the only limitation is that it does not replace legitimate trigraphs in your text by funny graphics (so that everyone knows what they mean :-) But I am sure you agree we really urgently need a way to have people without basic 3270 skills to read APARs that may match the symptoms in their dump, understand which PTFs to order, and find out whether a PTF is in the RSU or not. Not because you would trust them to apply the PTFs <evil grin> but because they need their skills to download the files with their web browser from some ftp server in Boulder, upload them to their CMS userid and then hope DETERSE will still be able to read it. Come on... it's not that someone thought the customers needed this. It's all about turf wars inside IBM. Rob PS Some time ago I encouraged the IBMLINK developers to model the APAR/PTF search and ordering after services like Amazon. We would not call them PE's anymore, but would send people mail with recommendations like "85% of the people who applied this PTF also went to get this one..." And it would not just be funny, but might actually be useful for searching APARs.
