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Workspace Spectrum LSF
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Created on Aug 18, 2016

LSF 10.1 documentation in PDF format

Please can docmentation in PDF format be provided for LSF 10.1.

With LSF 10.1 documentation in PDF format is no longer available so the online documentation has to be used, the justification being that it is "updated and regenerated regularly". I consider not providing PDF documentation to be a retrograde step.

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    Sep 2, 2016

    We've made PDF documentation available on the LSF Wiki

    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/New%20IBM%20Platform%20LSF%20Wiki/page/LSF%20documentation

  • Guest
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    Aug 22, 2016

    PDFs are really only convenient as a printable format. They are not accessible. They are not searchable (Google and the IBM Knowledge Center (KC) search engine cannot crawl them).

    The IBM KC has had almost zero downtime in the last year so is effectively "always available".

    IBM KC content for all LSF family products is available in a "customer installed" (CI) format for local offline use - it is available now with IBM Spectrum Application Centre Basic Edition. KC CI content is "always available" in exactly the same sense as PDFs are, with the added benefit of being fully searchable and accessible (unlike PDFs).

    IBM KC is fully searchable and accessible. it can be updated in a matter of minutes rather than hours or days it would take to update PDF.

    The KC is IBM's strategic documentation channel, and it will continue to improve in customization and personalization functions (like multiple-topic printing, saving content to collections, etc.)

    The KC also as the ability to generate custom PDF's, however it appears that this functionality has been disabled in the current version of the KC backend (which we do not control).

    As an interim solution, We will provide a one off PDF build of the documentation and make it available on SMC shortly

    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/sdi/spectrum-lsf/resources.html#ISLSF

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    Aug 19, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #93249 in product Platform LSF.