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:
- Access help from the Web.
- Download help and access content locally.
- Access help from a server on your intranet.
To change the way that you access help content, complete the
following steps:
- Click . The Preferences window opens.
- 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:
- Disable the link to the internet site by selecting the Web address
in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- Click New; then name the intranet connection,
specify the intranet Web address for the server that contains the
help content, and then click OK.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- Click , 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:
- Disable the link to the remote product Information Center by selecting
that connection in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- Enable the the local host by selecting Local (URL http://127.0.0.1:63650/help)
in the Contents list, and then clicking Enable.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- 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:
- Disable the link to local host by selecting that connection in
the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- 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.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- Click , to open your help.
- To change from accessing help content locally to accessing help
content from an intranet server, follow these steps:
- Disable the link to local host by selecting that connection in
the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- Click New; then name the connection, specify
the intranet Web address for the server that contains the help content,
and then click OK.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- Click , to open your help.
- To change from accessing help content from an intranet server
to downloading and accessing help content locally, follow these steps:
- Disable the link to the intranet server by selecting that connection
in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- Enable the local host by selecting Local (URL http://127.0.0.1:63650/help),
and then click Enable.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- 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:
- Disable the link to your intranet site by selecting the intranet
Web address in the Contents list, and then clicking Disable.
- Click Add; then name the connection, specify
the Web address for the IBM Web
site that contains the help content, and then click OK.
- Click OK to close Preferences.
- Save any work and close and restart the product.
- Click , 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.