When I was re-assigned to the various "collection" kits about three years ago, I checked the "coverage" of the platform. When I worked on the initial releases back in MVS days, we covered 95-99% of the entire platform including much of the ITSO offerings. When I re-inherited the zOS collection, I found that our coverage had dropped to less than 20% of the SWG related products that run on z/OS. The corporate strategy in intervening years was away from monolithic platform collections to Information Centers and that trend is continuing.
Do I personally prefer a monolithic collection? Yes! However I also remember the time when we had to devote an entire physical room to house the physical books previous to that ;-) Can we go back to a monolithic collection? No. The corporate direction to Information Centers and, soon, Knowledge Centers (KC) -- especially the latter -- is supposed to help re-federate information. KC is currently in beta. Sincerely, Kevin Minerley LookAt architect from its inception Original MVS, AIX, VM CDROM doc collection "builder". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
