Importing PPA license entitlements

IBM Passport Advantage (PPA) and Enterprise Software Management Tool (ESMT) are web based tools that you can use to purchase, download, and manage software licenses.

The PPA and ESMT tools allow you to access downloads quickly, order from the Popular Offerings Catalog online, review and update contacts online, view Proof of Entitlements online, subscribe to notifications for new subscription updates, and generate several types of reports on entitlements or downloads history. These tools use predefined part numbers for software instead of a software Product Identifier (PID) which gives you authorization to use the license, but is not associated with version or release information.

You can export license information in a spreadsheet or CSV file format to use in the License application to manage all of your licenses. The license information that will be in the file includes part numbers, license names, and attributes.