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IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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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 ...
8 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

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...
21 days 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...
22 days ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Submitted

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...
about 2 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Centralized scans for disconnected scanners

When implemetion disconnected scanners a local scheduling (MS task scheduler, UNIX/Linux contab) will be setup. Nevertheless the most customer have to monitor the scan / upload jobs via some kind of monitoring tool, e.g. Nagios. Because all client...
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Future consideration

Build a virtual folder (tres) structure with tagging for reports

Organizing a large number of reports within ILMT is challenging. Today it‘s only possible using the ILMT filter technoglogy. The have the disadvantage that you have to go the the filter structure again and again to get the report.
about 2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

GUID added to report functionality

There is an urgent requirement to have the “Signature GUID” with in the ILMT (Software Classification), which is necessary to have the GUID used to determine if an installation record might be a duplicate of an existing record. Requesting to incor...
2 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Submitted