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Collecting and importing data with HCL Z Asset Optimizer
HCL Z Asset Optimizer includes programs that collect system and usage data, import, filter, and match this data, update the Repository tables, and make the data available for review and query.
Importing Inquisitor data
The Inquisitor Import reads data from Inquisitor scans, where the data is filtered and matched to products. The filtered, matched data is then copied to the Repository tables where it can be viewed and queried by the Analyzer reporting utility.
TPARAM parameters
The TPARAM parameters that you specify for Inquisitor Import define what data is included in the import.

Collecting and importing data with HCL Z Asset Optimizer
HCL Z Asset Optimizer includes programs that collect system and usage data, import, filter, and match this data, update the Repository tables, and make the data available for review and query.
- Updating the Global Knowledge Base
  HCL provides monthly updates to the Global Knowledge Base (GKB) so that you can keep your product inventory definitions up-to-date. You can also submit items to HCL support for inclusion in GKB updates.
- Collecting scanned libraries with the Inquisitor for z/OS
  The Inquisitor is a program that scans and collects information about partitioned data set (PDS) and partitioned data set extended (PDSE) program libraries. The Inquisitor Import program takes the collected data as input to form the basis of your software inventory.
- Collecting UNIX files with the Inquisitor for z/OS UNIX
  The Inquisitor for z/OS® UNIX™ is a program that collects information about executable software existing in HFS and zFS data sets currently mounted and accessible to z/OS UNIX. The Inquisitor Import program takes the collected data as input to form the basis of your z/OS UNIX software inventory.
- Collecting usage data with the Usage Monitor
  The Usage Monitor is a server address space that runs as a started task. Work is queued to the Usage Monitor from all address spaces where programs are used. The Usage Monitor moves captured program usage data into the collection repository and periodically writes the accumulated data to a sequential file. The Usage Monitor runs APF authorized and is non-swappable.
- Importing Inquisitor data
  The Inquisitor Import reads data from Inquisitor scans, where the data is filtered and matched to products. The filtered, matched data is then copied to the Repository tables where it can be viewed and queried by the Analyzer reporting utility.
  - Running the Inquisitor Import
    The HZASIQIM job in the JCLLIB library performs the Inquisitor Import. This job is generated from the HZASCUST post-installation customization job.
  - Import filters and matching
    When you import data collected by the Inquisitor, the import procedure reads the data and filters and matches the data before copying the data to the Repository tables.
  - TPARAM parameters
    The TPARAM parameters that you specify for Inquisitor Import define what data is included in the import.
- Importing usage data
  The Usage import job imports data generated by the Usage Monitor and aggregates usage data for discovered or identified modules in the Repository tables in the database.
- Aggregating usage and discovery data
  The Aggregator is a program that populates the Asset tables.
- Activating the Automation Server
  The Automation Server discovers new data sets and processes them by starting a set of predefined actions that associate the data with data set name masks that form a catalog search. This search determines if any data set names matching the mask are to be processed.

TPARAM parameters

The TPARAM parameters that you specify for Inquisitor Import define what data is included in the import.

COMMIT=

Default is 1000. Number of records stored before issuing a COMMIT.

COUNTUSAGE=

The parameter controls when product usage totals are counted. Setting to Y indicates that records are counted in the Inquisitor Import job for modules that have usage and are identified for the first time when usage records were imported before discovery was performed. These recounts of product usage because of modules that are identified can be time consuming.

The Inquisitor Import deletes count entries for products for which at least one module is identified for the first time, and that have usage details as these counts are invalidated by the identification. This is done regardless of the setting of the COUNTUSAGE parameter.

Default setting is COUNTUSAGE=N. For performance reasons, if you are running Inquisitor Imports for many systems importing IQ data into the same Repository, run the Aggregator step only once in the last IQ Import job. The Aggregator step performs the same function in summarizing the product usage records.

DSN=

Db2® location. Value assigned, as defined in job HZASCUST

FILTERSCHEMA=

Inquisitor Import filter qualifier. Name of qualifier is &GKBZSCHM_IQF7

FULLREMATCH=

Default is Y, which means all libraries are imported and processed. N means to skip import from scanned libraries where no member directories have changed since a previous Inquisitor Import to the same Repository.

GKBSCHEMA=

Global Knowledge Base qualifier for z/OS®. Name of qualifier is &GKBZSCHM_GKB7

GKUSCHEMA=

Global Knowledge Base qualifier for z/OS® UNIX™. Name of qualifier is &GKBZSCHM_GKU7

LKBSCHEMA=

Local Knowledge Base qualifier for z/OS®. Name of qualifier is &REPZSCHM_LKB7

LKUSCHEMA=

Local Knowledge Base qualifier for z/OS® UNIX™. Name of qualifier is &REPZSCHM_LKU7

PRODUCTONLY=

Default is N, which means all modules, including unidentified modules, are loaded into the Repository. Y means only modules that have been matched to known products are loaded into the Repository, meaning, application modules are excluded.

REPSCHEMA=

Repository qualifier. Name of qualifier is &REPZSCHM.

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