nulagrithom, I sent your feedback to the product team that owns that documentation. Their response is below. Could you please let me know more details about the issue you are running into?
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> Put out comprehensive documentation _on the indexable Internet_ and not in PDFs
But IBM does do exactly this--and more than a lot of companies!
For example, IBM Knowledge Center [1] houses the documentation for over 3000 IBM products and services, and offers up more than 13M english pages--without a sign-in even, and we translate our official content into over 30 languages.
IBM KC is very well indexed by Google, too (we take pains to make that happen).
We also offer custom search and links to more freely available IBM documentation. Our Cloud development docs--Bluemix docs, are also quite public, though some, it's true, are behind a cloud product sign-in.
Redbooks, too, are available in HTML, not just PDF. They can be found on the web and are indexed by Google too, as are articles from developerWorks and Technotes from Support.
So I really don't understand the complaint about our documentation. Almost none of it is behind a sign-in, let alone a for pay firewall, and almost all of it is freely available to anyone, not just our customers.
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> Put out comprehensive documentation _on the indexable Internet_ and not in PDFs
But IBM does do exactly this--and more than a lot of companies!
For example, IBM Knowledge Center [1] houses the documentation for over 3000 IBM products and services, and offers up more than 13M english pages--without a sign-in even, and we translate our official content into over 30 languages.
IBM KC is very well indexed by Google, too (we take pains to make that happen).
We also offer custom search and links to more freely available IBM documentation. Our Cloud development docs--Bluemix docs, are also quite public, though some, it's true, are behind a cloud product sign-in.
Redbooks, too, are available in HTML, not just PDF. They can be found on the web and are indexed by Google too, as are articles from developerWorks and Technotes from Support.
So I really don't understand the complaint about our documentation. Almost none of it is behind a sign-in, let alone a for pay firewall, and almost all of it is freely available to anyone, not just our customers.
Hope this helps!
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[1] ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter