If you know some words that may appear in the topics you want, just type them all into the search field in any order:

If you know exact phrases that appear in the topics you want, get more precise results by enclosing the phrases within quotation marks:

You can use an asterisk ( * ) in your search terms as a placeholder, or "wild card", for any number of characters. Use a question mark ( ? ) as a placeholder for any single character. Note that using wild card characters will return search results grouped by book title or help topic. Therefore, "good" matches for your search terms may appear far down the list of search results. We recommend that you set the number of matching documents you want to display to a minimum of 100 in order to get search results from a variety of books and help.

If some keywords are very important to the search, and other keywords might or might not be in the topics you want, precede the important ones with a plus sign:

If you do a search and receive a lot of matches that you do not want, try and find words that are in these unwanted topics and include them as search words, preceded by minus signs.

If you want to look up information about a statement or command in the SQL Reference or Command Reference, include one of the subheadings as a search term:

Choosing What to Search

You can search through all of the information, or search only a subset of the information:

• The most frequently used books, such as the SQL Reference and Command Reference
• General categories of books, such as the administration books or programming books. To see which books are considered administration, programming, installation, or connectivity, see the DB2 Online Information page.
• The online help for the Control Center.

Troubleshooting Search Problems

• Before you can search, the Search server must be installed and running on your machine. Usually, the Search server is configured for you during installation.
• You must install the appropriate set of HTML books for links in the search results list to work.
• The search does not support AND or OR operators.
• In some cases a small file with only one search hit will be ranked higher in the list than a large file with multiple hits.
• In some cases you will receive a return code of 22 (rc 22) when using a wild card that returns too many hits (for instance, searching for 'D*'). To avoid this error you need to specify a search phrase that is more restrictive.
• For more information see the "Working with NetQuestion" section in the Installation and Configuration Supplement.