IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS

IBM® Knowledge Center is the IBM strategic platform for delivering technical content. z/OS® V2R2 includes IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS, which is an SMP/E packaging of the customer installable version of IBM Knowledge Center for use on the z/OS platform. The customer installable version uses an enhanced version of search technology that is available in IBM information centers.

• IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS provides the ability to display, navigate and search content in a manner similar to IBM Knowledge Center on ibm.com.
• IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS serves IBM product publication content to web browser clients from the z/OS server system
• Content can be manually added to and maintained in IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS zFS repositories using information in the IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS Configuration and User Guide, SC27-6805.
• Content can be automatically added to and maintained in IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS zFS repositories using the enhanced SoftCopy Librarian V5 tool
• By adding and maintaining content, IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS can be made to serve product publications for many different IBM products

Use IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS to create your own enterprise document repository for local use. IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS is especially valuable for:

• Enterprises with no Internet access either for security reasons or as a valuable backup when Internet access is disrupted
• Personalizing or controlling the content of an enterprise library

The z/OS Softcopy Librarian, available as a download, is enhanced to make it easy to manage and update the content for IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS.