IBM Support Assistant User Guide
Search Component
What's it for?
The Search component is a useful interface that makes it possible to search various information sites concurrently.
From a single window, you can initiate a search that accesses multiple sites. You can perform searches on the local
help files, or you can search for information over the Web. You can also narrow your search by selecting specific
versions of IBM software products. The IBM Support Assistant lets you pick from the following types of information:
- Technical notes from the IBM software support Web site
- IBM newsgroup and forum postings
- Articles from IBM developerWorks
- Local product help
- Google™ Web search.
The Search component helps you by simplifying the task of searching for support information across heterogeneous
sources. The results of the search are returned to you in an orderly hierarchical arrangement— allowing you to
scan groups of returned documents and see the individual documents that interest you.