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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

    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

    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

    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

    Identify .jar file manifest dates to identify old code

    Most .jar files have a manifest that contains information about the package. This includes package date. This information is helpful in identifying old version of things like Apache servers.Detail info about manifest:https://docs.oracle.com/javase...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future 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?
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Not under consideration

    Comments/Updates Field.

    This request is to include a field for Comments/Updates, that can be updated by the client (end user) via the Web User Interface, with the data retained in the client’s database repository. This field is updateable by clients and can be used to st...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Functionality already exists

    Provide a digital signature option during the SMP/E build

    We are required to prove that our software instances are patched and up to date. Can SMP/E (or a separate utility that can perform this function for a non-SMPE product) generate a digital signature containing a summary of hash values that represen...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Not under consideration

    Insert User Data to the TAD/Z repository

    For regulators, auditors, and many other consumers, we need to marry software usage data with LPAR MSU, license expiration, EOM, EOL data, contractual limitations (e.g. Perpetual license, LPAR based license, ELA, Sub-Capacity License etc...). Like...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Future consideration

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