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Request feature 'Multi Repository in single report' feature in 'Product Use by Machine and IBM Value Units' in Assets tab

Since we have to do monthly report and we have more than 100 repositories, and currently we have to download one by one and combine those files into one. Could we request to add the feature of 'Multi Repository in single report' in 'Product Use by...
22 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

Intelligent Software Dependency Mapping and License Impact Analysis for IBM Z Software Asset Management

I propose adding an Intelligent Software Dependency Mapping and License Impact Analysis capability to IBM Z Software Asset Management to help organizations gain deeper visibility into relationships between software assets, system resources, applic...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

zCDP COBOL API to be executed in CICS not just in batch

Currently COBOL API in zCDP only works when executed in batch but in our environment, it is not the preferred way. Application team are currently doing this via CICS (EXEC CICS PROGRAM(<module>) and Ironstream product module is used for that...
2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Submitted

Admin Report for GKB level

Users may need to ensure they are viewing products using the latest GKB level. Contacting in-house support is not always efficient. It would be helpful if users could check the GKB level quickly without needing to contact their support teams. A si...
3 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Under review

HSIAUTL read pending HSIAPARM

Use HISAUTL to check updates to HSIAPARM before activating the changes in Automation Server. When making changes to a dataset mask, it would be helpful to produce a report showing what would be processed once this parm update is included in the AS...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Under review

"ServiceNow" Integration

We would need to populate the "ServiceNow" CMDB with the HW and SW information that the Software Asset Management products provides us. Complete and accurate view of z/OS assets within the CMDB and custom scheduled screenshot of the installed SW c...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Future consideration

REMIGRATE libraries to ML2

When processing migrated libraries there is an option REMIGRATE which moves back volumes which are to be recalled. This parameter is only working fine if library is recalled from ML1. In this case library is migrated back to ML1 volume. If recall ...
10 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Future consideration

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 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management Future consideration

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