What’s new in 9.1

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The new features and capabilities in IBM Z Software Asset Management 9.1 help your organization achieve greater efficiency in asset discovery.

API Support Enabled

An API Server has been added that enables data that resides in a IBM repository to be extracted as JSON files. The initial release has 5 endpoints:
  • Product Inventory
  • Product Use by Month
  • End of Service report
  • Product use by Machine
  • Discovered Product Detail

UNIX License Information Added to UNIX GKB

IBM Z Software Asset Management 9.1 now has License information just like z/OS for UNIX products. This means, in the Asset reports, the UNIX products will now show zPricer details just like z/OS products.

Product Suites Added for UNIX

Support for UNIX product Suites has been included.

Ability to Exclude Product Suite Processing

A new parameter has been added to IQIMPORT that enables users to exclude the processing of product suites. The default is to process Product Suites.

Ability to Post Notifications in Analyzer

A new function has been added to Analyzer, allowing notifications to be posted. When a user first logs onto Analyzer, they will see a list of current unread notifications. Users can always view the report at any time. Additionally, users with administrator privileges can easily post new notifications from a dedicated report.

IQ and Usage Logs Displays IBM Version and APAR

Both IQ and Usage log reports will now show the ZSAM version the data came from and the APAR level of the code.

New Report to View Products by Categories

A new report has been added that will allow users to view products by category. This will show products based on category and show multiple products under the same category.

GKB Updates via FixCentral

Optionally, you can also download GKB updates via FixCentral as well as PTF.

Ability to View Data by Operating System for few Reports

Discovered Product Detail, Discovered Product by System, and Product Inventory reports now allow viewing of products by operating system.

EOS Date Added to Discovered Product Detail Report

The End of Service date has been included to the Discovered product Detail report.

LKB Summary Report Versions

The LKB Summary report now shows the versions of the LKB products that have been added.

GKB Summary Report Supports UNIX Asset Information

The GKB Summary report now supports UNIX Asset information. The report will now also display the Category the product belongs to.

Staging Table Added to SQILITE

In SQLITE, it’s now possible to pre-load usage data into a temporary table for improved viewing of raw use data by report Usage Monitor Detail report. Since the data is now indexed, search time has been improved.

Inquisitor JCL Changes

JCL DD names HSIPZIP, HSIPOUT, HSIPDMP, and HSIDAMAP are changed to INQPZIP, INQPOUT, INQPDMP, and DASDMAP, respectively.

JCL DD names HSIXZIP, HSIXOUT, HSIXMSG, HSIXROOT, and HSIXOMIT are changed to INQXZIP, INQXOUT, INQXMSG, INQXROOT, and INQXOMIT respectively.

Product Tagger JCL Changes

JCL DD name HSIREDIR is changed to TAGREDIR.

Usage Monitor Changes

JCL DD names HSIZMSG, HSIZIN, HSIZSNAP, HSIZDATA and HSIDAMAP are changed to UMONMSG, UMONIN, UMONSNAP, UMONDATA and DASDMAP respectively.The HSIIPEEK REXX EXEC shipped in the SHSIEXEC library has been updated to reflect the new DD name.

The CRO and RDC settings have been removed due to the lack of any observable performance benefits.

New Container Product Version

The Container Product version enables you to run the Mainframe collectors as usual, with the added benefit of executing report analysis, Usage, and IQ data imports on a zLinux or zCX system instead of z/OS. This update helps significantly reduce your CP MSU consumption for IBM Z Software Asset Management use.

The new Container package can be downloaded from FixCentral. Look for IBM Z Software Asset Management under the Tivoli Brand.