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IBM Z Software Asset Management

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Add the support for UNIX Product Suites

It's useful because the Customer have some software with USS component and the Product don't perform correctly all the components
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

izsam should integrate with servicenow

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

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the APAR level of the TADz/IZSAM scan agent used to create scan file

Every month we receive many thousands of IZSAM scan files from client systems around the world. Often we receive queries as to why their QMF has not been correctly identified, or other issues that have already been resolved by the developers. In m...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the Version of TADz/IZSAM used to create scan file

We receive each month tens of thousands of TADz scan files from nearly four thousand z/OS sytems belonging to many hundreds of distinct client accounts. We have no way of knowing which scan files have been generated by which version of TADz, and t...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Change to generated JCL out of PGM=HSICCSI

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: Currently the CSI report generates IQ-JCL which is pretty much hard coded and therefore not so useful for us. Instead provide t...
5 months 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 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 6 Future consideration

Add ability to post notices on web UI

It would be helpful if our support team could post notices on the web UI to inform users of important information. These would be informational messages and Not prevent use of the UI. Examples: Upcoming planned maintenance Failed to load usage dat...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Additional functionality required for tagging products using "user defined fields" to be extracted by the Inquisitor

Most companies install IBM and ISV products on a single system in their environment (a product install and maintenance system). Then, using some process, propagate the product(s) on Sysres or program product volumes to other systems. Most companie...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 Future consideration

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