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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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change the report used in the PVU Subcapacity screen on overview page

We create a report that will show the last 30 days of the PVU utilization. and this report we are saving in the network. But in the overview page always show the last 90 days. So could we have a way to change the report that show the information t...
11 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

License Service does not allow to set them in the AWS ECS Fargate usage logger for WebSphere Application Server

We are moving WebSphere on AWS Cloud ECS Fargate. We are not able to implement license tracking because we have need: SSE-KMS requires additional HTTP headers to be set in the request: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPOST...
about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

ILMT Support to Autoscaling

I have a suggestion for enhancing ILMT's functionality. It would be beneficial if ILMT could support scale sets, auto-scaling, or similar setups to prevent issues with duplicate entries in reports. My idea is to implement a rule where you can spec...
about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Needs more information

ILMT to be able to capture and report on actual compiler execution times from SLM tags

Right now ILMT reads SLM tags from the servers for IBM XLC compilers - but only averages out compile times to a 24 hour period. This means it is not useful for IBM compiler concurrent user license tracking. SLM tags has been documented as the new ...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Automate obfuscation (anonymization) of server name, computer name and IP address for audit snapshots

Often clients are hesitant to share their real server names, computer names and IP addresses in the audit snapshot as these data are deemed confidential. To send an audit snapshot that meets their business and data confidentiality criteria, they h...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Planned for future release

Add the ability to exclude dirs in IBM disconnected scanner

The IBM i software scan currently takes over 30 minutes to complete due to the large size of the filesystems. By excluding directories that do not contain IBM software, we can reduce the scan time and lower the system utilization required to run t...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to consume licence data from License Server Reporter

We use ILMT and Licence Service Reporter to monitor our PVU and VPC licences with the majority of our licences being PVU. It would be good to be able to send the audit snapshots from License Service Reporter to ILMT so that we can make full use of...
3 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

Report for obsolete operation systems

Today customers have to look at the IBM subcapacity terms and conditions page to find out which operation plattforms and version as well as which hypervisiors and version are not subcapacity elegible anymore or will be removed soon, s. https://www...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

Save / Load parameter for install disconnected scanner fixlet

Today if implementing disconnected sanner via the Bigfix fixlet all parmeters have to be set manually for a group of systems to build a customized setup_config.ini file. It would be nice to save this “setup_config.in“ file so that it can be import...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Install / update /delete disconnected scanner with ILMT

Today after installed a disconnected scanner onto a client no updates, reconfiguartion, or deletion is possibe without working on the cliens directly or using tools like software distribution, e.g. Ansible, puppet etc. A new designed disconnected ...
4 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration