Of course. I am very biased against company provided laptops. Also, using your own for the docs provides the extra screen real estate, and - most of the time - better resolution needed for reading comfort.
Of course my machines have an up to date copy of the stick on SSD. And when a company has sensible VPN access, a better 3270 emulator. @Carmen - having an undocumented parm for COBOL deserves an immediate Documentation APAR. Paying for software means having supported documentation, which is up to date. Please ask them in the APAR to have synchronised sources for the PDF and the website, where the PDF is the primary output. I am not sure what is happening to IBM. Is COBOL now also outsourced? Best regards, René. Sent from my iPad > On 21 Jan 2022, at 15:47, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope you only plug that USB stick in your own PC. > > Policy here is that it can get you fired if you plug it into a work computer. > Just ask the Iranians. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > René Jansen > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 9:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM Knowledge Center down? > > My regular warning to download the all the pdf files of all the manuals, > people! > > You might not have external internet access when it all goes sideways. In > fact, that is an extremely common scenario, in which you would want, very > bad, access to all the crummy, slow, wrong-link infested crap that is an > absolute showcase of how not to provide documentation, or build websites > using active content, for that matter. That mainframe would be still online > of course, and reachable, provided you have a direct Telnet 3270 link to it, > and no ‘stepping stones’ on deplorable technology. Or webserver based > emulators. > > Books are even better of course, but not everyone has the space. > > My usb stick with manuals is very well maintained, and I have generational > copies of that. That stick, and the readability of the pdf file on a modern > high res screen is a showcase of modern technology, the website is not. > > Best regards, > > René. > > >> On 21 Jan 2022, at 15:21, Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have to agree, back in the early days development of a index page was >> intended to be simple, provide some wording, and some links to where you >> want to go, mostly due to performance, the faster the page loads the better, >> no glitter, pictures or unnecessary icons. >> >> the only tools we had back in the early 90's was a C program one of my team >> members write to convert DCF/SCRIPT to HTML (thanks to Mike Myers) ! >> otherwise it was all hand coded. >> >> >> Carmen >> >>>> On 1/21/2022 8:02 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>> It's not just IBM. There seems to be a race to the bottom in web page >>> design. Glitz is more important than, e.g., ease of use, performance, >>> reliability. Take entry and validation of, e.g., credit card numbers, >>> e-mail addresses, names, ZIP codes; it is bog standard to not tell the user >>> the required format and to reject valid characters. >>> >>> Not that "everybody else does it" is a valid excuse. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) 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