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IBM Z Software Asset Management

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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 12 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

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

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...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

Product usage information from USS

TADz also collecting usage data from USS as from z/OS
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Planned for future release

TADZ - VIPA Support

Enable the TADZ STC HSIJANLO to bind to a VIPA to make this product Sysplex aware.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

Provide option to apply GKB updates outside of SMP/E if that is the customer preference

Previously, monthly GKB updates were provided by a file which could be uploaded to reflect updated/changed products. However this was recently changed to enforce the use of SMP/E to apply GKB updates. This does not work in our shop for the followi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Future consideration

The HSIJANLO needs to be able to use AT-TLS

We need a way to remove the weak handshake ciphers from the server side.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Planned for future release

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

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

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