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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...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 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 ...
over 2 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Product usage information from USS

TADz also collecting usage data from USS as from z/OS
about 5 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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 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.
3 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Not under consideration

Module and Dataset listings showing ALIAS-OF

Is it possible to capture the ALIAS-OF values for each module and dataset listed in reports?
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
4 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Submitted