Metadata Analyzer window

The Metadata Analyzer window is primarily used to access metadata that has been collected about your applications. The steps to do this are as follows:

• Step 1 – Search a repository for entities that match on name, type, properties, relationship properties, type of relationship, or the direction of the relationship.
• Step 2 – View the results of the search (the entities in the repository that match the search criteria and their related entities).
• Step 3 – View the properties of the entities.

Additional functionality

After completing these steps, you might want to do some of the following:

• Perform impact analysis
• Build a structure chart
• View collection status
• Print or export information about entities.

• Open a program in the Program Analyzer. Select a program in the Entities view and, from the Tools menu, select Program Analyzer.

  Note

  This functionality is not available for Assembler programs.

• Browse a read-only version of a downloaded entity in an editor. Select the entity in the Entities view and do one of the following to open a read-only version of the entity in an editor.
  • From the Tools menu, select Browse.
  • Right-click the entity and select Browse from the shortcut menu.

Administrators also use the Metadata Analyzer window to do the following = 4) BSPSPopupOnMouseOver(event);" class="popupspot" >collection-management activities:

• Create collections
• Create connections
• Merge entities
• Dynamic entities and dynamic program names
• Delete entities from the repository
• Change passwords
• Change the directory location of Favorites and downloaded source
• Change the user account assigned to the Metadata Server service
• Enable or disable the learning process