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Figure 1-21 WSAA Help page (Part 1 of 1)

The left-hand side of the Help page contains several expandable topics; for instance:

򐂰 Getting started

򐂰 A quick overview of how to use WSAA

򐂰 A description of how to collect inventory for MVS and distributed assets

There is even a detailed description of the database tables and their columns.

If you did not find the information you need about WSAA by reading this book — we probably

did not do our job — we suggest that you spend some time to review the online help.

1.4 Summary

That concludes our introduction to the WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer. This should give

you a good sense of what WSAA is and how you might want to use the product at your site.

Tip: The more adventurous among you may want to use this list of tables (which are

merely provided for reference and do not constitute a programming interface) to create

your own DB2 SQL queries to obtain information from the database that is not available on

any of the Web pages.

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As a WSAA system or product administrator, you now have a better understanding of the

information that your site’s application development managers and programmers can obtain

by querying the database.

As an application development project manager or group leader, we hope we got your thought

processes whirling as you dream of ways in which you can more quickly scope out your

projects and view your application’s interdependencies.

As an application programmer, you can probably see how using WSAA can let you access

detailed information faster and easier than by reading through saved compiler listings or by

scanning production source code libraries.

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