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Credit where it's due - IBM Finally made the Sofware Access Catalog on Parterworld Useable!
By Andrew Pollack on 01/20/2011 at 08:37 AM ESTIt's years overdue, and they've taken a lot of criticism for years about it (including from me) -- but IBM Partnerworld actually --IMPRESSED-- me with the changes to the software access catalog.
It only took about 5 clicks to find it from the Partnerworld login page (and you can make your own shortcut that gets you to within 2 pages of it). Once there, the minute I started typing my search term ("Traveler" in this case) the correct matching options dropped down and the top option was the latest version. One more click and I had my download choices. Checked the files I needed and I was downloading. The download manager even saved the file with a useful file name (rather than Z8411AD7.tar) without me having to beat it into submission.
For those who aren't IBM Lotus Business Partners or don't use Partnerworld, this process used to be a crazy painful one. You'd spend 20 minutes scrolling around a thousand bad options form a search page to find what you wanted. Changing search terms meant multiple screen refreshes and waiting and waiting.
This is the first time I've ever had something nice to say about Partnerworld.
that it's better now
you can set your default email font in Notes 8.5.2?"
shocked :)
Although I bookmarked, my record was 6 clicks :)))
enhancement.
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