DOORS help.exe cannot access the internet

We have installed DOORS 9.6.1.6

Help.exe is invoked from >Help>Contents and Index

The help application says

Unavailable sites:-

http://www.ibm.com:80/support/knowledgecenter/SSYQBZ/index.jsp

When this URL is pasted into a browser the help comes up OK. So the machine can see the help website but the help.exe utility seems to be unable to see it.

Is there any special security settings that need to be relaxed so that help.exe can see the IBM help website?

 

 


DoorsXLAustralia - Fri May 06 02:17:05 EDT 2016

Re: DOORS help.exe cannot access the internet
knobutan - Fri May 06 03:20:27 EDT 2016

Hi,

Have you tried the test connection?

The cause might be the proxy setting. Could you check Preference > Help > Network Connection to see whether correct proxy setting is set?

Re: DOORS help.exe cannot access the internet
WardEdwards - Thu May 19 15:46:21 EDT 2016

I ran into similar problems and in working with the folks who manager our proxy servers,  we determine that the IBM help files also actually go out to some 3rd party websites for metrics collection and those also cannot be blocked.