Help for your product is available on a product information
center on the Internet. You can view this help from within the product.
Before you begin
During installation, the option to access help content from
a remote information center was selected. This is the default selection.
About this task
Your product help system can retrieve content installed with
the product and content from a remote server running an information
center. The information center for your product has the most current
help content and when your product is configured to retrieve content
from a remote information center, the contents of the information
center can be accessed by selecting to open your help
system.
The information center for your product is available at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rsthelp/v8r1m0/index.jsp.
Procedure
To check your connection to the information center:
- Open the Preferences window by clicking .
- Select .
- Ensure that Include help content from a remote
infocenter is selected.
- Ensure that the URL for your product information center
is in the list of available information centers. If your information
center is not listed, complete the following steps:
- Click Add.
- In the Name field, type a name
for the connection.
- In the Host field, type publib.boulder.ibm.com.
- In the Path field, type /infocenter/rsthelp/v8r1m0.
- Select Use default port.
- Click OK.
- Select the entry for your product information center.
- Click Test Connection.
Results
Connection Successful is displayed
if the connection is made. If
Connection failed is
displayed, verify that you have an active Internet connection and
check the settings.