Subscribing to Support updates

To stay informed of important information about the IBM products that you use, you can subscribe to updates.

About this task

By subscribing to receive updates, you can receive important technical information and updates for specific Support tools and resources. You can subscribe to updates by using one of two approaches:

RSS feeds and social media subscriptions
For general information about RSS, including steps for getting started and a list of RSS-enabled IBM web pages, visit the IBM Software Support RSS feeds site.
My Notifications
With My Notifications, you can subscribe to Support updates for any IBM product. You can specify that you want to receive daily or weekly email announcements. You can specify what type of information you want to receive (such as publications, hints and tips, product flashes (also known as alerts), downloads, and drivers). My Notifications enables you to customize and categorize the products about which you want to be informed and the delivery methods that best suit your needs.

Procedure

To subscribe to Support updates:

  1. Go to the IBM® Support Portal and click Sign in to create, manage, or view your subscriptions in the Notifications pane.
  2. If you have already registered for My support, sign in and skip to the next step. If you have not registered, click Register now. Complete the registration form using your email address as your IBMid and click Submit.
  3. Identify what and how you want to receive updates.
    1. Click the Subscribe tab.
    2. Click Information Management or another software brand or type of hardware.
    3. Select one or more products by name, for example, Content Manager Enterprise Edition or FileNet® Content Manager, and click Continue.
    4. Select your preferences for how to receive updates, whether by e-mail, online in a designated folder, or as an RSS or Atom feed.
    5. Select the types of documentation updates you want to receive, for example, new information about product downloads and discussion group comments.
    6. Click Submit.

Results

Until you modify your RSS feeds and My Notifications preferences, you receive notifications of updates that you have requested. You can modify your preferences when needed (for example, if you stop using one product and begin using another product).