Re: Venting about docs
Thank you to Art Kagel, Malcolm Weallans and Paul Mosser who took the time to raise suggestions for enhancing the current Informix product documentation. Cross-linking references to other manuals within Informix documentation is a suggestion that has often come up. In fact, Informix had implemented it briefly prior to the acquisition of Informix by IBM. The process of cross-linking manuals, however, proved problematic as directory names shifted and multiple versions of books were released. We will revisit this issue and determine whether cross-linking references to other manuals is possible within the IBM documentation system. Making the documentation filenames on the doc CD and downloadable .zip file of the complete doc set will be easier for us to address. Look for this to be corrected in future releases. The IBM Informix documentation team is committed to improving the user experience with its products, and feedback such as yours helps make that possible. Scott ---------------------------------------- Scott Stark sstark@us.ibm.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of > mweallans@panacea.co.uk > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:28 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Venting about docs > > ... > Informix: Storage Managers Administration Guide. Great. But there is > no link to that manual. So I look in the Master Index for "IBM > Informix: Storage Managers Administration Guide" and it doesn't exist > in the master index. > > In the end I went back to my (t)rusty 9.3 and 9.4 manuals. > > I think the concept of having a searchable master index is brilliant > (DEC had one for VAX/VMS - now how many years ago was that? ) but in > reality it isn't a small job to accomplish this and if not done > properly is more of a hindrance than a help - and that will mean more > RTFM questions on this list. > > I can't wait > In the meantime, maybe this will help alleviate the pain... ??? http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp HTH, Paul Mosser sending to informix-list