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Rant: (new) IBM partner software download


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Knowing that everyone cannot access the site partners use to download software, I did not link it.  But I am tossing a small screenshot.  What happened is that you used to jump to a Notes database for the Software Catalog for electronic download of software.  Now recently I have not had to download anything until this past weekend.  It seems they changed over to an all IBM software delivery of some sort and searching sucks and never returns what is usually expected.

No, it really sucks.  A customer wanted some to load a Macintosh for a new or upgraded user.  I entered Mac, then tried OSX and then tried Mac Notes only to find nothing returned.  So I went the long route and did 6.5.4 Notes and got way too many results only to find Mac not on the page.  Here is the screenshot for Mac and all I got was 2 Websphere returns for Fortran.  Fortran!

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You have 3 possible choices of searching.  By product number (yeah right), By search text (tried that) and by Categories.  So I went this route last week and did not have the best luck, it returned far too many results but I finally found what I wanted.  So I tried again today.

I limited the search to:

  •  Download method: Download Director
  • Search brands: Lotus Software
  • Product names: Notes/Domino
  • Languages: English International, English US
  • Platforms: Apple Macintosh Operating System, Apple UX (Apple)
  • Date posted: Within past 1 year

I expected a small listing of returned results.  Instead I still got numerous operating systems with 9 eAssemblies and 224 products.  We all know there is not 224 Mac products posted in the last year!