Getting Direct References

Note: This functionality is only available if you are connected to a Enterprise Analyzer or COBOL Analyzer repository.

As a developer, you need to be able to see if changing a file will affect the other files in your project as well as the files in the whole application. To do that, after setting a connection to the Application Analysis Server, you need to first associate your project with the server.

You can do this by right-clicking your project and selecting Associate with Analysis Server and then the server that you are connected to.

There are two ways to get the direct references for files: from the Project Explores view and from the Analysis Server Explorer view.

From Project Explorer:
- Select one or more files, right-click and select Search Analysis Server > Get Direct References.
From Analysis Server Explorer:
- Select one or more workspaces, right-click and select Search for Direct References. Type file names separated by commas and click OK.

The Direct References search results show information about the references such as copybooks used, calls to other programs, etc., as well as properties such as source name, source type and the source path on the server. If more than one match is found, all are displayed.