Rational Developer for System z

Changing the way that you access help content

You can change the way that you access help content.

When using Rational® developer for System z®, you can access the help content remotely (where the help content resides out on the web or a server on your intranet) or you can download and install the help content on your workstation and access the helps locally. Once installed locally, Rational Developer for System z allows you to select which of these access methods you want to use (the default is accessing the help content remotely on the web).

Close the help browser before you change the way that you access help content.

During the installation process, you selected one of the following methods for accessing help content: To change the way that you access help content, complete the following steps:
  1. Click Window > Preferences. The Preferences window opens.
  2. Expand the Help entry, and then click Content. A list displaying the currently configured information center or centers opens. Depending on the access method that was chosen, complete one of the following procedures.
    • To change from accessing help content from an information center on an IBM® Web site to accessing help content on an intranet server, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to the internet site by selecting the Web address in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Click New; then name the intranet connection, specify the intranet Web address for the server that contains the help content, and then click OK.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. Click Help > Help Contents, to open your help.
    • To change from accessing help content from an information center on an IBM Web site to downloading and accessing help content locally, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to the remote product Information Center by selecting that connection in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Enable the the local host by selecting Local (URL http://127.0.0.1:63650/help) in the Contents list, and then clicking Enable.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. When you restart the product, the complete online help is downloaded and installed provided that you have an Internet connection. On subsequent startups, available updates to the help are downloaded and installed. If you do not have an internet connection, you need to install the help content using the local help updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file found in the install_localhelp directory of the Quick Start Disk. For additional information on installing helps locally using the local help updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file, see Installing help content locally using the Local Help Updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file.
    • To change from accessing help content locally to accessing help content from an IBM Web site, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to local host by selecting that connection in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Click New; then name the connection, specify the Web address for the IBM Web site that contains the help content (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v8r0), and then click OK. This Web address might already be available in the list of connections. If it is listed, select the connection and click Enable.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. Click Help > Help Contents, to open your help.
    • To change from accessing help content locally to accessing help content from an intranet server, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to local host by selecting that connection in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Click New; then name the connection, specify the intranet Web address for the server that contains the help content, and then click OK.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. Click Help > Help Contents, to open your help.
    • To change from accessing help content from an intranet server to downloading and accessing help content locally, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to the intranet server by selecting that connection in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Enable the local host by selecting Local (URL http://127.0.0.1:63650/help), and then click Enable.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. When you restart the product, the complete online help is downloaded and installed provided that you have an Internet connection.

        If you do not have an internet connection, you need to install the help content using the local help updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file found in the install_localhelp directory of the Quick Start Disk. For additional information on installing helps locally using the local help updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file, see Installing help content locally using the Local Help Updater and the RDz8.0_updateSite.zip file.

    • To change from accessing help content from an intranet server to accessing help from an IBM Web site, follow these steps:
      1. Disable the link to your intranet site by selecting the intranet Web address in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
      2. Click Add; then name the connection, specify the Web address for the IBM Web site that contains the help content, and then click OK.
      3. Click OK to close Preferences.
      4. Save any work and close and restart the product.
      5. Click Help > Help Contents, to open your help.
Note: When you change your access method by going to Window>Preferences, Help>Content, you need to close and then restart Rational Developer for system z for the change to take affect. If you do not restart Rational Developer for System z, the help behavior may become erratic and unpredictable.

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