These concepts provide information to help you perform
the software catalog tasks.
Knowledge base
The knowledge base is
a collection of information about software products, their components,
the dependencies between them, and the means to discover them.
Software catalog
A software catalog is a document used to store knowledge base data
and share it between different applications or between different instances
of the knowledge base.
A software catalog can be imported into the Maximo® database from Software
Knowledge Base Toolkit or Asset Discovery for z/OS®, separately purchased products from IBM. The software catalog records can then be viewed and managed from the Software Catalog
application.
Software hierarchy
A software hierarchy is the combination of
product, version, and release (or feature) that represents an item
of software in a database or knowledge base. The product is the root
of the hierarchy.
Conversion variants
A conversion variant is a software catalog
record designated as an alias of the currently
displayed record on the Software tab of the Software Catalog application.