Setting up access to DB2 contextual help and documentation - IBM DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Use the Documentation page of the Tools Settings notebook to specify: whether to automatically display hover help and infopop help features in the DB2® administration tools, and where you want to access the DB2 Information Center from so that you can view DB2 contextual help and documentation.

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To open the Tools Settings notebook, click Tools Settings icon on the DB2 toolbar. Click the Documentation tab.

To indicate whether hover help will be automatically displayed, select or clear the Automatically display hover help check box. The default setting is for the hover help to be automatically displayed.

To indicate whether infopops will be automatically displayed, select or clear the Automatically display infopops check box. The default setting is for the infopops to be automatically displayed. If you clear this check box so that infopops are not automatically displayed, you can still press F1 to see the infopop for a particular field or control.

In the Documentation location fields, specify for this instance where to access the DB2 Information Center from:

To access the DB2 Information Center on the IBM Web site, use the default values.
To access the DB2 Information Center installed on an intranet server, or on your own computer, specify the host name and port number of the server or computer.
Important:

The documentation location values that you specify on this page update the DB2 DB2_DOCHOST and DB2_DOCPORT profile registry variables that control how requests for DB2 documentation are handled for this instance only. If you want to change the settings for all instances on this computer, or if you want to change them for a single user session, follow the instructions in Setting the location for accessing the DB2 Information Center.
To have the Documentation location values take effect, including resetting the default values, click Set and restart the center in which you are working.