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Explore Overview

Explore is the deterministic research area of a Data Lineage project. Everything here is produced by parsing your ingested legacy source (COBOL, RPG, PL/I, and related), SQL, job languages (JCL, CL, CLLE, and related), and schema metadata—stable across visits until the project is reloaded with new sources.

AI features (Ask a Lineage Question, Summary, Tell Me More) are not in Explore; they live on the dashboard or on item detail views. Use Explore to verify facts and follow links from AI answers.

The six tabs

Tab

What it lists

Modules

Program modules (COBOL, RPG, PL/I, and other ingested languages)

Tables

SQL tables

Fields

SQL columns

Variables

Program data items (including group structures and hardcoded values in the tree)

Jobs

Batch jobs from job languages (JCL, CL, CLLE, and related)

Files

Logical files and data sets

Each tab follows the same pattern:

  1. Grid — Searchable, filterable list of all items of that type, plus useful statistics (counts, reads/writes, complexity indicators).
  2. Detail — Click a row to see how that item connects to others: actions (read, write, insert, update), related modules, variables, SQL, steps, and data sets.
  3. Cross-links — Links jump to the same item (or a related one) on another tab so you can trace lineage without re-searching.

Open Explore from the project menu after you enter a project. Dashboard statistic cards are shortcuts into the matching tab.

Search and filter

Every tab supports finding items by name. Some tabs add richer filters—for example, Modules search applies only to module name and user-entered descriptions (use Ask a Lineage Question for broader discovery), and Fields can filter by table or module or search the same column name across tables. See each tab’s topic for specifics.

How Explore fits with the dashboard

Need

Where to go

Broad question (“where are overdraft fees calculated?”)

Dashboard → Ask a Lineage Question

Known item (table name, program name, job name)

Explore → correct tab → search

Confirm a path (table read → variable → write)

Explore → start at module or field detail

Plain-English overview of one module, variable, or job

Open item in Explore → Summary → Tell Me More