Installing help content locally

Your product help system can retrieve content installed with the product, as well as content from a remote server that is running an information center. One option for accessing help is to download the help files and access them from your local machine.

Before you begin

Ensure that the help access option is set to Download help and access the content locally.
If you did not select this option during installation, change the help access method to specify a local download and installation:
  1. In the InfoSphere Optim™ Query Tuner client, select Window > Preferences > Help > Content.
  2. Select the option Include help content from a remote infocenter.
  3. On the Remote InfoCenters tab, disable Optim Query Tuner Client and enable Local.
  4. Click OK to close the Preferences window.

About this task

To access all help content locally, you need download it, either from the public remote update site for the product or by using an update site compressed (.zip) file.

Procedure

To install local help content:

  1. Optional: For better performance, download a compressed file that contains the documentation. This step improves performance during installation; however if you install local help this way, you will not be automatically notified when updates to your local help are available.
    1. Download the update site compressed file for the documentation that you want to install from the following web page: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/documentation/updatesites/
    2. Extract the compressed file to a temporary directory.
  2. With your product open, click Help > Local Help Updater.
  3. Specify the location of the help that you want to download.
    • If you downloaded and extracted a compressed file, add the location of the extracted update site on the Internal Sites tab. Click the Add toolbar button, verify that the Local radio button is checked, then browse to the location of the update site and select the site.xml file.
    • To specify the location of the public update site for your product, select your product name from the list on the Public Sites tab.
    • The Available Features list will be populated with a list of the help that is available for download. If you are using a public update site, this might take a few minutes.
  4. Select the help content that you need.
  5. Click Install.

What to do next

When the help installation is completed, restart the InfoSphere Optim Query Tuner client and open the help by selecting Help > Help Contents.

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