Overview
Quickly identify z/OS software inventory and use to reduce costs and minimize compliance risk
Inspecting licenses versus deployment is great for distributed but not sufficient for z/OS, as z/OS products are shared by users/business units. Tivoli® Asset Discovery for z/OS provides discovery, monitoring and reporting to understand z/OS product and application usage.
- Automatically discovers and identifies IBM® and third party software running on the z/OS® platform
- High speed scanning and in house application tagging ensures that you have a complete inventory of everything on your system without a lot of overhead
- Monitors software usage and related growth to proactively plan for future capacity needs
- Generates interactive reports that provide convenient hyperlink drill down for more details
- Lower costs by removing unused and obsolete software
- Use with IBM Tivoli® Asset Management for IT to manage the full-life cycle of hardware and software assets including software license and contracts management.
- Add IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed for an end-to-end software asset management solution
- Operating systems supported: z/OS
Case study
FIDUCIA Leverages Its Software Assets with IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS
Analyst report
IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for System z/OS—Removing the Pain from Mainframe Asset Discovery (127KB)
