IBM Support Assistant User Guide
Search Component
What's it for?
The Search component is a useful interface that makes it possible to search various
information sites concurrently. From a single window, you can initiate a search that
accesses multiple sites. You can perform searches on the local help files, or you can search
for information over the Web. You can also narrow your search by selecting specific versions
of IBM software products. The IBM Support Assistant lets you pick from the following types
of information:
- Technical notes from the IBM software support Web site
- IBM newsgroup and forum postings
- Articles from IBM developerWorks
- Local help system
- Google™ Web search.
The Search component helps you by simplifying the task of searching for support information
across heterogeneous sources. The results of the search are returned to you in an orderly
hierarchical arrangement —- allowing you to scan groups of returned documents and see the
individual documents that interest you.