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Quickly identify IBM Z software inventory and use to reduce costs and minimize compliance risk
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What IBM Z Software Asset Management can do for business

IBM Z® Software Asset Management provides asset discovery, monitoring and reporting to understand IBM Z and third-party product and application usage. You can use it to manage the full-life cycle of hardware and software assets including software license and contracts management. IBM Z Software Asset Management allows you to avoid license compliance violation penalties by providing a full audit trail to track usage and enable effective license management. You can also add IBM Z Software Asset Management for Distributed for an end-to-end software asset management solution. Additionally, support has been added for SCRT Tailored Fit Pricing with new reports.

Benefits
Save time

Get automatic discovery and identification of IBM® and third-party software running on the IBM Z platform.

Increase performance

Enable improved performance in operational jobs and reduction in database disk space requirements.

Improve data insights

Monitor software usage and related growth so you can proactively plan for future capacity needs.

Reduce costs

Lower costs by removing unused and obsolete software.

Key features of IBM Z Software Asset Management
  • Automatic discovery and identification
  • Advanced reporting
  • Software monitoring
  • High-speed scanning
  • Asset and license management capabilities
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Features

Automatic discovery and identification

IBM Z® Software Asset Management automatically discovers and identifies IBM® and third-party software running on the IBM z/OS® platform.

Advanced reporting

Generate interactive reports that provide convenient hyperlink drill down for more details. The software provides Enhanced Analyzer Reports showing views of machine inventory, storage devices and resources.

Software monitoring

Monitor software usage and related growth to help plan for future capacity needs.

High-speed scanning

The software offers high-speed scanning and in-house application tagging to help you generate a complete inventory of everything on your system without a lot of overhead. It also delivers change tracking via report, which shows added or deleted products since the last agent scan.

Asset and license management capabilities

Avoid license compliance violation penalties by providing a full audit trail to track usage and enable effective license management.


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