Finding software products to view or work with

Use the Software Catalog application to view all or a subset of all the software records in the catalog, or locate a particular software record that you want to work with further.

About this task

When using the Software Catalog application to look for software, displaying all records on the List tab can generate thousands of software catalog entries. The table filter (the fields in the top, Software Name row, of the Software table window), and the Advanced Search feature, offer many ways to search for and filter the software catalog entries. You can also use these search features to reduce the entry list in the software table to a default 200 entries (unless configured otherwise) or less, which is required before you can select multiple records to work with.
Tip: When searching with the table filter, you can use the Catalog Name field to find records imported either from the knowledge base (the separately available Software Knowledge Base Toolkit) or from discovery tool databases. The knowledge base records all default to IBM SwKBT. Asset Discovery for z/OS® (also separately available) records all default to Asset Discovery for z/OS. All other discovery tool records default to Third-party.

The steps for finding software products to view or work with follow.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation bar, click Go To > Administration > Deployed Assets > Software Catalog.
  2. On the toolbar, display all records for software products, or use the table filter or Advanced Search to filter the records that you want to display.
  3. To view or work with one or more software records displayed in the Software table window, do one of the following:
    • Click on a single record to go directly to the Software tab and open the record. Click on subsequent tabs for additional details related to the record.
    • Select the records you want to work with, then click the tab or select an action (from the Select Action menu) appropriate for your task.

      To select multiple catalog records on the List tab, check the Select Records check box (at the bottom left of the list) and then check one or more records that you want to work with. If you subsequently select a tab, the last-selected record is displayed. From the toolbar, you can click the Previous Record and Next Record icons (the left and right arrows) to page back and forth through the records that you selected on the List tab.

    If you select nothing on the List tab, any actions that you select will affect all the records displayed in the Software table window.



Feedback