If you are not going to use remote help to access the help
content from the web and you do not have internet access, you must
install the help content locally. This topic explains how to install
the help content using the Local Help System Updater and the RDz90_updateSite.zip file
provided in the installation image. The RDz90_updateSite.zip file
is on the IBM Rational Developer
for System z Quick
Start Disc. The most current version of the RDz90_updateSite.zip file
is available from the update download site at: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/documentation/updatesites/.
Before you begin
During installation, the help access option,
Download
help and access the content locally, was selected.
About this task
Before using the help for the product, you have to install
the help to your local system.
To install the help content on the
workstation using the RDz90_updateSite.zip file,
complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Copy the file RDz90_updateSite.zip to <installtion_location>/help/updates directory
(where you installed IBM Rational Developer
for System z on
your system).
- Open IBM Rational Developer
for System z.
- Select Window > Preferences and
then Help>Content. Verify
that the Local help is enabled and Remote help is disabled. Close
the Preferences window.
- Close and restart IBM Rational Developer
for System z.
- When the help initialization is complete, the local help
installation is complete. Select Help > Help
Contents to open the product help.
- If a message appears stating that local help content has
not been installed, select to install the local help using the Local
Help Updater. When the Local Help Updater opens:
- Select Internal Sites from the Sites pull-down.
- Select the + icon to add a location.
- Select Local.
- Type a name for the site.
- Click Browse (’...’) and browse
to the location where you copied the RDz90_updateSite.zip file
and locate the site.xml file. The site.xml file
should be in a subdirectory called RDz90_UpdateSite_zip.
- Double click the site.xml file, and
then click OK. If OK is
not enabled, verify that the fully qualified path for the site.xml file
is specified. A progress bar opens and tracks the status as the Local
Help Updater searches for the available features included in the RDz90_updateSite.zip file.
The internal site you specified is created and appears in the Site
List.
- Select the internal site you created. The available Rational
Developer for System z documentation
features appear.
- Select the Rational
Developer for System z
documentation you want to install and click Install.
- When the installation is complete, Close and restart Rational
Developer for System z.
- Select Help > Help
Contents to open the product help.
Results
The help that you selected to install locally is installed
and available on your system.