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, select the option to access help from a remote information
center. This is the default selection.
If you did not select
this option during installation, change the help access method to
specify accessing help from a remote information center.
About this task
Your product 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 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 from
one of the following URLs:
Procedure
To check your connection to the information center, complete
the following steps:
- Open the Preferences dialog
- 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, enter a name
for the connection.
- In the Host field, enter pic.dhe.ibm.com
- In the Path field, enter one
of the following paths, depending on your product:
| Product |
Path |
|---|
| IBM Data Studio |
/infocenter/dstudio/v4r1/ |
| InfoSphere Data
Architect |
/infocenter/dataarch/v9r1/ |
- Select Use default port
- Click OK
- Select the entry for your product information center.
- Click Test Connection.