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 about IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, you can receive important technical information and updates for specific IBM Support tools and resources. You can subscribe to updates by using My Notifications:

My Notifications
With My Notifications, you can subscribe to Support updates for any IBM product. (My Notifications replaces My Support, which is a similar tool that you might have used in the past.) With My Notifications, 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 My Notifications, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to the IBM Support Portal (http://www.ibm.com/software/support/) and sign in by using your IBM ID and password.
  2. In the Notifications portlet, click Manage all my subscriptions, then click the Subscribe tab.
  3. Click Other Software.
  4. Select IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, then click Continue.
    1. Select your preferences for how to receive updates, whether by email, online in a designated folder, or as an RSS or Atom feed.
    2. Select the types of documentation updates that you want to receive, for example, new information about product downloads and discussion group comments.
    3. Click Submit.

Results

Until you modify your My Notifications preferences, you receive notifications of updates that you have requested. You can modify your preferences when needed.