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Announcements letters on IBM Docus release notes

The Announcement letter release Notes are focused on the features and updates to IBM announcement letters hosted on the IBM Docs platform hosting IBM Documentation. The IBM Documentation platform is typically updated every two weeks as part of our continuous delivery.

October 13, 2023

You can now subscribe to a weekly email containing all announcement that are posted to IBM Documentation each week, via IBM My Notifications. Read how to subscribe here.

July 21, 2023

Known issue - Announcement readers often search for announcement letters or sales manuals by product ID (PID). IBM Documentation has been indexed to allow for this. For example, for the PID 5655-MGU, you can enter the PID in the search bar on the Announcement home page or from the IBM Docs search page. However, due to an issues (that is being investigated) with IBM masthead search parsing numbers before and after "hyphens", the search results returns any document that has those numbers before or after the hyphen in the PID. While this is being investigated, simply follow the same rules as you would for isolating a search keyword on any other search engine by putting hyphens around the PID. For example, search on 5655-MGU yileds 11K results, search on "5655-MGU" yields 42 results.

Note: searching by PID means you will see all sales manuals or announcement letters associated with that PID, not just a singular number

July 7, 2023

Updates to announcement letters and sales manuals search

IBM Docs has pushed the following update to AL/SM on IBM Docs in today's continuous delivery to production. We have added the ability to search via intitle: into announcement letter / SM scoped search.

Intitle search

An Intitle search allows you to search for announcements with a particular title. Using “intitle:” followed by your search term, or keyword, forces IBM Docs search to scan only Titles of the announcements. This means your research results exclude the keyword if it is located in the body of the announcement letter or sales manuals. Your results will depend on whether you have “Include archived announcements” set to yes or not.

For example, from the Announcements search bar on the Announcements home page if you enter the words: intitle:power , the search results will show the following:

When you have included archived announcements, the results might look like Figure 1

Include archived announcements is set to yes

Figure 1 - intitle search with "Include archived announcements" set to yes

When you have not included archived announcements, the results might look like Figure 2

Does not include archived announcements

Figure 2 - intitle search with "Include archived announcements" set to no

June 28, 2023

As of the June 28, 2023, updates to the IBM Documentation platform, you now can search for announcements that were published prior to 2020 (referred to as archived announcements).

To access archived announcements (announcements published prior to 2020):

Navigate to the IBM Docs Announcements home page
From the left nav, click Search archived announcement letters. This opens the IBM Docs search results page and displays all archived announcements.
You can sort by date or enter a date range.

Note: Some of these letters were originally created in earlier versions of HTML and may have formatting issues. You also can download the PDF for these older announcements.