How do I . . .

General tasks

Set up and verify installation of components? (Before using this product, you need to do some initial setup.)
Know what I can do with this product?
Know what a message from this product means?

Create a collection to collect metadata?
Create a connection so I can collect metadata from a host?
Run a collection?
Do a search for entities that match my criteria?
Add my favorite searches to my Favorites menu?
Change the directory for my favorites and downloaded source?
View the entities that match my criteria, and view their properties and relationships?
View collection execution details?
Handle dynamic entities?
Define a relationship between two entities?
Start the Metadata Server?
Understand the syntax used in searches?
Check the status of the server?
Track the progress of a collection?
Navigate the Metadata Analyzer?
Determine what entities could potentially be affected by changing any entity?
Get a graphical view of an entity?
Filter the entity types shown in the structure chart?
Print or export information about entities?
Deal with load and source names of a program that do not match?

Get familiar with a program?
Make a needed code change?
Identify problem areas like invalid data?
Display the hierarchy of perform groups that make up my program?
View the logic flow of a perform group?
Find all the locations of a particular data name in my program?
Find the data flow to and from a data item?
Display statement-level results?
Identify any statements directly or indirectly affected by another field in my program?
Check for syntax errors and code flaws in my program?
Locate certain types of COBOL structures?
Reduce program complexity, file size, and compile time of a program?
Do a structured walk-through of changed code (without data)?
Split a compilable program into two or more smaller programs that provide the same functionality of the original?
Measure my program's complexity?
Call a preprocessor to perform pre-processing on my COBOL program?