Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM announcement letter summary

2023-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Gil,

They do at least provide the URL, I left it off for brevity.  No word as to 
whether they'll send any kind of correspondence in the future or just expect 
folks to bookmark the URL and then remember to go look on a weekly (or other 
regularly scheduled time) basis.

Rex

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Paul Gilmartin
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM announcement letter summary

On Tue, 9 May 2023 16:56:56 +, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>...
>
>This weekly e-mail communication is now sunset. You can find the weekly IBM 
>product announcements on the IBM Documentation Announcements page.
>
>
Did they not supply a URL?  Shame!

>Now, instead of a short summary delivered to my inbox I have to go to IBM's 
>documentation page to find announcements.  Instead of a one-line summary per 
>announcement I now get the privilege of scrolling up and down through an 
>almost-empty web page where I can see somewhere between 6-8 notifications per 
>page.  
>
They should just put it on TikTok.

Looking at: 
, I see more than 6-8 notifications per page.  Is there a better location?  
Worse?

There is a malign WWW style rule that each page must fit on a screen, thwarting 
the "Find in Page" function.  I believe it arises from a journalistic 
convention that absurdly requires a list of 100 names to be split into 
paragraphs no longer than
8 column-cm. with a different introductory phrase for each.

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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM announcement letter summary

2023-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, 

The announcement letter email wasn't just z-series.  I used to support p-series 
hardware and AIX as well, and idle curiosity has kept me getting those 
announcements as well.  They were all included in the e-mail, based on your 
preferences.

Rex

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
John McKown
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:21 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM announcement letter summary

WAG - they want to sunset the equipment that runs the functions and the z/OS 
customers are not important enough to port the process elsewhere. Or maybe they 
"released" everyone who knew anything about it.

IMO, IBM doesn't really care about that much about z anymore.

Neither do I. I'll be playing with Linux on Intel when I get kicked to the curb 
(kerb) come 1 aug 2023.

On Tue, May 9, 2023, 11:57 Pommier, Rex  wrote:

> Why, IBM?  Was sending out an announcement letter summary that taxing 
> on your limited resources that you had to eliminate this convenience 
> for your customers?
>
> Instead of the normal Tuesday announcement letter summary I got this:
>
> 
> This weekly e-mail communication is now sunset. You can find the 
> weekly IBM product announcements on the IBM Documentation Announcements page.
> 
>
> Now, instead of a short summary delivered to my inbox I have to go to 
> IBM's documentation page to find announcements.  Instead of a one-line 
> summary per announcement I now get the privilege of scrolling up and 
> down through an almost-empty web page where I can see somewhere 
> between 6-8 notifications per page.
>
> OK, rant off...
>
> Rex
>
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