Thanks Kurt,
Sorry, I just missed seeing your reply. Thanks so much!! (One of the major
3rd party vendor support has been telling me that they have to create a PWSI to
produce the product information file)
Mike Martin
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I just answered my own question. The IBM z/OSMF Configuration Guide states
that we can create our own product information files (as they are just simple
text files).
Mike Martin
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https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=guide-creating-product-information-files-software-management-task
Kurt Quackenbush
IBM | z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management
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Thanks again Kurt,
Can a vendor produce product information files without their providing portable
instances for installing the product(s)? Or is that file an artifact of
creating portable instances? It seems like I could theoretically hand-build a
product information file to supply a EOS
Awesome. Thanks Kurt. The spreadsheet we currently use to track software, has
additional columns that management likes to see, such as the "latest and
greatest" version that has been GA'd. We can probably just keep that in a
separate spreadsheet. The important thing to me is the EOS
Software Management Product
Information files, but I do not know if any others provide them.
Regarding adding fields to the display, no, z/OSMF Software Management has no
capability at this time for user-added fields. But I'm curious, can you
explain more what you want to add?
Kurt Quackenbush
IBM
Hi all,
Like some other shops, we track installed software versions and End of Support
dates just using a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is difficult to keep current.
I just started looking at the z/OSMF Software Management feature and like that
it can show the End of Support date for IBM
