BSC - Why?? bad decision - broken links and unable to find old documents

[Dennis Handly]

>Rita: this announcement that Tim Nelson brought out:
http://support.openview.hp.com/communities.jsp
>The ITRC forums will continue to exist until mid-2011 at which time they will migrate into the new HP Software Solutions Community.

I thought he went away happy when I said it probably was only for those Mgmt software forums, not all:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1461347

So any DP and Glance questions will be gone.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Bill and RIta have summed up my thinking and I've ranted about this debacle before in some of Torsten's threads.

I agree with Rita when I look at the "new" Forum that will supplant this 11+ year old one. I am simply unimpressed. Of course, the new Forums have a comic book! There is a time and a place for all things and I hate to think HP spends support contract monies writing comics.

I agree with Alzhy in that I hope this doesn't portend a time when a support contract will be required for documentation. I know we all remember when patch downloads were free. After all, a patch in the absence of the paid components wasn't worth much. Of course, if a contract was required to access documentation one could say that they are getting that benefit too for the hugh sums paid :-) I still contend that HP has some of the best documentation around, albeit just no longer easily found.

Open-source (code AND documentation), commodity hardware and the willingness of people to "pay-it-forward" might just eventually trump corporate greed and myopia.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tuan Nguyen_2]

hi all,

Thanks for all the comments, links... sadly, they try to destroy a great product (docs.hp.com) , which they have build for the last decades... and now this forum.

BSC hits Europe for 2-4 months ago, I think.

Dennis, thanks I was surpired as well, I need to click "All of HP (US)" below the search box to find this document.

>>The ITRC forums will continue to exist until mid-2011
oh no, another one...what about the points, and all the well earn pharaoh/olympian icon you all have deserved. Usually I use the points for quickly scan through the threads. I hope they will port the same point system and icons to the new forum.

Is BSC stand for "Business Scatter Center"?

Let hope Steve Jobs buy HP soon so all those crazy migrations can be stop :-)

Regards
Tuan

[Tuan Nguyen_2]

Hi
I had found a very quick way to find "all" missing HPUX links from google of from HPUX Release Notes.

I use this link:
http://search.hp.com/

DO not put the whole part string in the search box, put only the first part just before the "-".

Try:
B8725
j4240
5992 sasd
ENW-TBPS-TW or try 14670
high availability quorum ( http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html#Quorum%20Server )
JAVAGUIDE ( hp.com/en/JAVAPROGUIDE/hotspot.html#-d64)

Bonus:
Q: Which part number does APA has? OR which applications can I find on the DC Sept DVD3? (Table of contents)
A: Google for "HP Software Releases & Media" or "Instant Information DVD 2010" or just click the following link:
http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/ ; click then "Current HP-UX update releases" and then click "Release Media part numbers" and then click on the CD/DVD you have.


Regards,
Tuan