An Object Discovery Agent (ODA) enables you to generate business object definitions. A business object definition is a template for a business object. The ODA examines specified application objects, "discovers" the elements of those objects that correspond to business object attributes, and generates business object definitions to represent the information. Business Object Designer provides a graphical interface to access the Object Discovery Agent and to work with it interactively.
The ODA for iSeries generates business object definitions for accessing RPG programs and data que objects on the iSeries system. The Business Object Designer wizard automates the process of creating these definitions. You use the ODA to create business objects and Connector Configurator to configure the connector to support them.