Overview

The IBM® Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS® discovers IBM zSeries hardware and software resources. It stores the discovered resources in books. These books consist of XML tags and values that define the zSeries resources in conformance with the IBM Common Data Model (CDM) classes, attributes, and relationships. The z/OS DLA books can be loaded into the database of several different IBM products that make use of the discovered resources (and understand CDM). These products can then display the resources in their respective consoles.

The consumers that make use of the discovered resources include IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM), IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), and IBM Z Resources Discovery Data Service (ZRD-DS). The Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS includes the ability to use FTP to copy the books to a file server, where they can be loaded into a product that uses the books.

The consumers that use the DLA for z/OS can load books from various discovery library adapters (DLAs) that conform to CDM.