Use the Software Catalog application to manually define the relationships among products and components in a software bundle that might or might not be deployed. This task allows businesses that do not use Software Knowledge Base Toolkit or that use discovery tools other than Asset Discovery for z/OS® to define the representation of a bundle.
In the Software Catalog application, the parent-child relationships displayed on the Product Relationships tab represent the software component relationships in a software bundle.
The software bundle relationships that you define are informational only; they are not validated, nor are they used by any report or linked to any other application. Similarly, for the optional Software Knowledge Base Toolkit or Asset Discovery for z/OS products, any bundle relationships established in those products, once imported, appear as read-only values here.
Also note that if a software bundle is defined in the knowledge base, a user of the optional Asset Discovery for Distributed product can use these software bundle relationships to identify a deployed software instance as a component of a bundle, and these relationships can be imported into the Maximo® database. But it is not possible to import such relationships for software instances that originate with other discovery tools.
This task, therefore, is for people using those other discovery tools; it gives you the ability to define the same kind of bundle relationships that the aforementioned products already do.
The steps for defining product and component relationships in a software bundle follow.