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    Bypass security on ICF catalog

    Running inquisitor job with CATALOG parameter fails when there is no read access to ICF catalog. Our request is to "bypass" this security issue in same way as it is done when accessing any dataset. As inquisitor is running APF, it should be possib...
    6 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

    In the iZSAM GUI under the ASSETS tab using the "Product Use By Month" report screen, add an option called "Include Uninstalled/Deleted Software" with a check box. If that check box is checked, exclude the AND PI.UNINSTALL_DATE IS NULL AND P.FOBSERVEDELETED IS NULL AND S.FOBSERVEDELETED IS NULL from the where clause so that deleted history will be included in the resulting report.

    This would be useful to allow the customer to see history of product usage following the deletion of the product loadlibs followed by an IQ Scan and IQ Import. Without this, the customer has to build and execute special SQL without these where cla...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

    New REST API endpoint for searching by load module

    Would is be possible to add a REST endpoint to query repository by Load module? Similar to "Search modules" dialog in Web interface http://rsp3.rocketsoftware.com:9000/disc/search_modules?repository=REPHLQ1&outfmt=web&outlim=3&module=K...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Under review

    Allow scan of only migrated datasets

    For audit purpose it sometimes become neccesary to scan also for migrated datasets. There is an option available to do so when using CATALOG keyword. But using CATALOG keyword only scans on datasets which are connected via standard catalog search ...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

    Identification of IZSAM instance (lpar name, DB2 subsys) in banner in online interface

    When working with more IZSAM installations in parallel it becomes difficult to distinguish between different open sessions. So it would be very helpful when in banner of each GUI window there would be shown e.g. lparname and db2 subsystem connecte...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

    izsam should integrate with servicenow

    izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

    TAD4z report on SW release level and EOS

    It would be great to have release reported in numeric formats so it's possible to quickly create pivot table with version overview (currently it's a mixture and not only numbers - MULTIREP TADZRGL1 TADZRME1 TADZRNA1 TADZRNE1 TADZRSE1 - Discovered ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 6 Future consideration

    Ability to add customer internal software product ids via a user field

    Software products are assigned product ids by the vendors. As part of our firm's internal processes, we assign resource ids to vendor software and would like to be able to add our internal software product ids via some sort of custom field somewhe...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Not under consideration

    TADZ Reports - New column showing product version and release based on the last GKB loaded

    Can the reports be updated with adding an extra column to show the latest version and release of products registered in the lastest GKB loaded. By adding this column would add value because analyst can review and assess how far off products are fr...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards.

    IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards. Currently, the columns for "Crypto Online" and "Crypto Installed" are part of the report but they display 0 even if the actual value is not 0...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

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