Integration


This is an IBM Automation portal for Integration products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Delivered
Workspace IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 8, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Linking the ‘computers' V2 API with ‘license_usages' API

Before the introduction of 'computers' V2 API (introduced in ILMT/BFI version 9.2.8),
we were able to link the 'computer_systems' API with the 'license_usages' API by using the tag "id" in 'computer_systems' that will map onto the tag "computer_system_id" in 'license_usages'.
But according to the IBM link (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/integration/mapping_computer_systems_to_computers_v2.html), in 'computers' V2 API, the tag "id" is replaced by the "computer_id" tag from 'computer_systems'. This results in the breaking changes as we can't link the 'computers' V2 API with 'license_usages' API.
I tried to to map on the tags "id" and "computer_hardware.server_id" in 'computers' API but it also won't map onto the tag "computer_system_id" in 'license_usages'

The solution is to update the 'license_usages' API accordingly to get it linked with 'computers' V2 API.
For detail description please see my below post:
https://forum.bigfix.com/t/linking-the-computers-v2-api-introduced-in-ilmt-bfi-version-9-2-8-with-license-usages-api/23500

Idea priority High
RFE ID 112799
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 5, 2021

    Good news! In ILMT 9.2.24 (2Q 2021) release the API allows to report license usage (for processor capacity based metrics) per physical server. You can read more in ILMT documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=v2-retrieval-license-usage-information-per-server

    This augments the existing linkage to the list of instances (and computers on which given software was installed) using the HWM date parameter.


  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 26, 2017

    "We can't take advantage of the enhancement introduced in V2 API to get information about the PVU consumption"
    Yes, this is bacuse we can't link the 'computers' V2 API (introduced in ILMT/BFI version 9.2.8) with 'license_usages' API.
    The 'license_usages' API needs to be updated accordingly for it to work to work properly.

    The propeosed integration will fulfill the desired objective.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 20, 2017

    Proposed integration scenario is as follows:
    1) Query License Usage v2 to get information about license usage (there will be the same set as current on Reports->All Metric)
    2) Query v2/software_instance to get information about software components and computers (the same as currently drill down on above report to Software Classification report).

    PVU/RVU MAPC metric value according to the definition, is only provided for the whole set of computers taken into account for metric calculation.
    Could you please clarify "We can't take advantage of the enhancement introduced in V2 API to get information about the PVU consumption"? Could you provide your feedback on proposed above integration?

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.