Troubleshooting language-sensitive help

If you have trouble opening language-sensitive help, try these tips for working around known issues.

IBM® Developer for z/OS® provides language-sensitive help for program statements and keywords in COBOL and PL/I files. This help includes support for EXEC CICS, EXEC SQL, and EXEC DLI statements. Language-sensitive help opens the programming reference for the statement or keyword that is selected in the editor.

When you open language-sensitive help, you might see a message similar to the following: It indicates that the web browser (Microsoft Edge in this example) is preventing Eclipse from opening an external browser.
This page has been blocked
To work around this issue:
  1. Open the Preferences window.
  2. In the navigation pane, select Help.
  3. From the Open help contents list, select In the help browser. This change to the help preferences, bypasses the external browser block.
    Help preference page
  4. If you also see a message similar to the following, click the link to open the content in a new window.
    This content cannot be displayed in a frame