Rational Developer for System z

Accessing Web-based help

Help for Rational Developer for System z is available on a product information center on the Internet. You can view this help from within Rational Developer for System z.

Before you begin

During installation, the option to access help from a remote information center was selected. This option is the default selection.

About this task

The Rational Developer for System z help system can retrieve content installed with the product, as well as content from a remote server running an information center. The information center for Rational Developer for System z has the most current help content and when Rational Developer for System z is configured to retrieve content from a remote information center, the contents of the information center can be accessed by selecting Help > Help Contents to open your help system.

During installation, Rational Developer for System z was configured to access the help from the product information center.

The information center for Rational Developer for System z is available from the following Web address:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v8r0/index.jsp.

Follow these steps to check your connection to the information center:

Procedure

  1. Open the Preferences dialog
  2. Select Help > Content
  3. Ensure that the URL for the Rational Developer for System z information center is in the list of available information centers. If the Rational Developer for System z information center is not listed, complete the following steps:
    1. Click New
    2. In the Name field, enter a name for the connection.
    3. In the URL field, enter http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v8r0
    4. Click Test Connection
    5. If Test Connection is successful, click OK. If Test Connection fails, verify the URL you entered and try again.

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