10. A computer program product stored in a computer recordable-type medium for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface, the computer program product comprising: instructions, responsive to user input, dropping a first graphical component representing a first system object onto a second graphical component representing a query function, wherein said first system object contains an attribute having a value for which a user wishes to create the search query; instructions, responsive to the dropping of the first graphical component onto the second graphical component, presenting a set of attributes currently associated with the first system object on the graphical user interface, wherein the first system object is a pre-existing object within the data processing system and wherein the set of attributes that are presented on the graphical user interface specifies actual properties associated with the pre-existing object; instructions for receiving a user selection of at least one attribute in the set of attributes to create a selected attribute set; instructions, responsive to the user input, creating the search query from the selected attribute set and from a corresponding value of the first system object for each attribute in the selected attribute set; and instructions for using the search query to assemble a set of system objects, wherein each system object of the set of system objects has a value that is a same value for each respective attribute of the first system object, wherein the at least one attribute of the set of attributes is a data processing subsystem attribute that is currently associated with the first system object that is represented by the first graphical component that is dropped onto the second graphical component.
10. A computer program product stored in a computer recordable-type medium for building a search query in a data processing system having a graphical user interface, the computer program product comprising: instructions, responsive to user input, dropping a first graphical component representing a first system object onto a second graphical component representing a query function, wherein said first system object contains an attribute having a value for which a user wishes to create the search query; instructions, responsive to the dropping of the first graphical component onto the second graphical component, presenting a set of attributes currently associated with the first system object on the graphical user interface, wherein the first system object is a pre-existing object within the data processing system and wherein the set of attributes that are presented on the graphical user interface specifies actual properties associated with the pre-existing object; instructions for receiving a user selection of at least one attribute in the set of attributes to create a selected attribute set; instructions, responsive to the user input, creating the search query from the selected attribute set and from a corresponding value of the first system object for each attribute in the selected attribute set; and instructions for using the search query to assemble a set of system objects, wherein each system object of the set of system objects has a value that is a same value for each respective attribute of the first system object, wherein the at least one attribute of the set of attributes is a data processing subsystem attribute that is currently associated with the first system object that is represented by the first graphical component that is dropped onto the second graphical component. 11. The computer program product as recited in claim 10 , wherein the at least one attribute of the set of attributes is a subsystem attribute.