Overview
Quickly and easily identify z/OS software usage and achieve ROI by reducing license costs as well as minimizing compliance risk
Inspecting licenses versus deployment is good enough for distributed software, but not sufficient for z/OS. z/OS software products are shared by multiple users. 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
Leverage SQLite as a database and significantly reducing acquisition cost, ongoing maintenance and product setup time
Generate license compliance verification reporting directly, for proactive license management and better cooperation with the Asset management team
Obtain system generated notifications when compliance violations occur, understand what has changed between runs and track software by custom names (in addition to ISD standard naming)
Achieve high speed scanning and in house application tagging to ensure a complete inventory of everything on the system without a lot of overhead
Monitor software usage and related growth to proactively plan for future capacity needs
Generate interactive reports that provide convenient hyperlink drill down for more details
Lower costs by removing unused and obsolete software
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)
