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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...
    10 days 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

    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

    Discovery Products Use By Month - option to download all the usage data from all systems combined

    One of the #1 things I use the product for is the Discovered Product Use by Moth. In here, after drilling down from LPAR>LIBRARY, I get the most granular data usage, going down to the jobname/userid/date/library, etc. 99% of the time, this is t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Functionality already exists

    IZSAM display truncation message at top of report

    Currently the message indicating truncated results (more than xxx rows) is available at the bottom of the report. Many users are not seeing this message. Is it possible to display this message at the top of the report? Many user are doing a quick ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Functionality already exists

    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

    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

    When an ISV vendor has a comma in their name remove it before populating the IZSAM Db2 repository.

    There are several ISV vendors with a comma in there company name and when you use the data extracted from IZSAM in CSV format this creates an issue when reading the file with another program. If you were to scan the ISV vendor company name and rem...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Not under consideration

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