z/OS DLA discovery output to XML books

The principal mechanism that DLA for z/OS® uses for discovery is to query APIs and registers, and then write the resulting output to XML books (also known as IdML books) that conform to CDM. DLA for z/OS can provide the following types of resources in books:

  1. zSeries machine information, including serial number, processing capacity, LPAR, and VM guest
  2. zSeries virtualization, including Sysplex, PR/SM (processor resource/systems manager) LPARs, ZcouplingFacility, and VMGuest
  3. z/OS information, including PARMLIB active member contents, LNKLST, IODF data set, system exits, APF list, and IPL information
  4. Storage hardware (DASD) and volume information
  5. IBM® CICS® information, including Regions, version number, transactions, programs, files, and System Initialization Table (SIT) details
  6. IBM Db2® for z/OS information, including version number, databases and tablespaces
  7. IBM IMS information, including version, transactions, programs, and databases
  8. IBM MQSeries® for z/OS information, including version number, ports and connections, Sender and Receiver channels, Queues, NameLists, Processes, AuthInfo, buffer pools, PageSets, and MQStorage
  9. IBM WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS information, including version number, cell, node, and configuration files
  10. Address space information, including servers, version, DD allocations, address space type, program name, and program parameters
  11. TCP/IP information, including interfaces, IP addresses, fully qualified domain names, ports, bind addresses between applications, and IPv6 support
  12. Ability to extend discovery to additional z/OS software (IBM or nonIBM software) by creating user-defined custom servers