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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