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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace IBM Z Software Asset Management
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2024

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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 the data I use. But the issue is gathering ALL that data for EACH LPAR, then combining it into 1 spreadsheet. This takes too much time to download the months data from each LPAR, copy and copy the CSV content into a new CSV file. There is probably some SQL query that can be done but I dont know SQL.

Can we get an option to gather all the granular usage data of a product from ALL LPARS?  Also add a date range so I dont have to combine several months together. 

So it would have the fields below, and in those fields, it would contain data from all LPARS and all LIBRARIES. If you want, you could add a filter to choose from different libraries just like you do now with choosing products and LPARS, but that can easily be done in Excel. The most important part is gather all the data from all LPARS and all Libraries, and provide a MONTH FROM/TO filter.

Module 

Alias

 System

 User Id

 User Name

 Job Name 

Job Account Code 

First Date

 Last Date 

Last Job Id

 Events

 Vendor

 Product Release Name

 Release

 PID

 Library 

Volume

 

Thanks,

Alvin
Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Ashok Mahay
    Reply
    |     Jul 17, 2024

    Hello, Thank you for opening this product enhancement request. Development have commented that the Batch Analyzer job delivers what you are seeking. We plan to close this Aha idea accordingly. Please reach out if you have any further questions. Regards IBM Product Management

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2024

    Hi Alvin,

    I'm sure you realise that what you are asking for will incurr a lot of CPU and also a lot of data will be produced. You can use the Batch Analyzer job to do what you want by using the statements below:

    /disc/search_module_usage
    library            = EN00.PAB2.PROD.LOAD
    volume             = WBC347
    vendor             = eFunds
    prodrel            = CONNEX for S/390
    option             = BASE
    release            = 3.4
    system             = AU02
    month              = 2021-03
    repository         = V83TST
    showmultirepsingle = off
    metric             = EVENT
    multirep           = V83TST
    exclunknown        = off


    The above only looks at one library but to do what I think you want you can do the following:
    /disc/search_module_usage
    month              = 2021-03
    repository         = V83TST
    showmultirepsingle = off
    metric             = EVENT
    multirep           = V83TST
    exclunknown        = off


    You need to have a month specified to at least filter something. The above will include all LPARs so be warned there will be a lot of data. Try it and see if it works for you.

    Regards

    Jim K.

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