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Contributing to the information center

Share your opinions and contribute to the documentation in the information center. Simply sign in with your IBM® ID to comment on the documentation, start discussion threads, share examples, rate topics, watch topics or threads, and more.

For best results, use Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 7.x or Version 8.x or Mozilla Firefox Version 3.6. Enable cookies and JavaScript in the browser and disable blocking of pop-up windows.

If you do not sign in, you can still do these actions:

Logging in

You must log in with an IBM ID to add comments, reply to comments, and rate and watch topics. Click the Sign in link in the upper right corner of the topic pane.

If you do not have an IBM ID, you can register for one at https://www.ibm.com/account/profile/us?page=reg

Your display name appears with any comments that you make. To change your display name, click Tools > Preferences. Click the My Profile tab and click the Change it button.

Comment on an entire topic or selected text within the topic

There are three kinds of comments:
  • Comments on the topic in general
  • Comments on an element of the topic (for example, a heading or sentence)
  • Comments on a section of content that you select
To add a comment:
  1. Navigate to the topic on which you want to comment.
  2. Expand the comment pane at the bottom of the topic by clicking the tool bar of the pane.
  3. Do one of the following actions:
    • Click Comment on Topic to comment on the entire topic.
    • Select an element in the topic and click Comment on Element.
    • Select a range of content within a topic and click Comment on Selection.
  4. Add your comment in the pop-up window.

Reply to comments

To reply to an existing comment, click the Reply link under the comment in the comment pane, and add your response to the comment in the pop-up window.

Delete your comments

You can delete the comments that you added before authors or other reviewers reply to them. Click the Delete link below the comment.

Rate topics

You can rate topics based on your level of satisfaction by clicking a star at the top of the topic pane (Rating stars). Ratings are based on a 5-star scale.

Subscribe to pages or the entire site to be notified of new comments

You can watch specific topics to get e-mail notification of any comments to them. Click the Watch this Page link (Watch this Page link) in the upper right corner of the topic pane.

To watch the entire information center, click Tools > Preferences and click the My Watches tab. Select the Enable the information center watch check box and select the languages in which you want to receive comments.

To stop watching topics, use one of the following methods:
  • Open the topic and click the Stop Watching link at the top of the topic pane.
  • Configure the list of pages you are watching. In the comments tool bar, click Tools > Preferences. Then click the My Watches tab and deselect the pages that you no longer want to watch.

Click the RSS Subscribe link (RSS Subscribe link) to receive updates in your RSS feed reader.

View comments that others have made

In any topic that contains comments, you can expand or collapse the comment pane by clicking the tool bar of the comment pane.

You can see comments that others have made on any topic in the information center in two ways:
  • In the topic itself, click the expand button or the collapse button in the comment pane to expand or collapse comments on that topic.
  • View a list of all of the topics that contain comments. Click the Collaboration tab (Collaboration icon) of the navigation pane, then click the Show the hottest topics icon (Show the hottest topics icon) at the top of the pane.

To view comments by person, select the display name on a comment in the comment frame. You can see all comments made by that person in the Collaboration view.

To find comments in languages other than the default language of your browser, click More in the comment pane for options.

Search within the comments

You can search both the content and comments in the information center. The search results include two parts: results found in the topics and results found in the comments.



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Last updated: September 2012
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