FlexNet Manager Platform / Suite – SKU, PURL & Bundle updates (Release #501)

[RamyaJagadeesh]

The SKU, Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL) and Bundles libraries, used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL/Bundles libraries have been published and are now available. 

Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, Mar 28^th 2022 in your time zone. 

What's new in this release?

• Application 'Microsoft Office 365 Professional Plus' has been removed from both to ‘Microsoft 365 E3’ and ‘Microsoft 365 E5’ bundles.
  
  
• Resolved 21 ignored applications linked to bundle, 3 Non-Licensed SKUs linked to Bundle, and unpublished 29 bundles which were published with only one application & had no SKUs mapped to them.
  
  
• Updated ‘IBM Cloud Pak for Automation 20.0’ bundle with ‘Business Automation Workflow Process Center 8.6’, ‘Business Automation Workflow Process Server 8.5 Advanced’ and ‘Business Automation Workflow Process Server 8.5 Standard’ applications as secondary.

• Three bundles have been newly published

1. IBM Db2 Base Edition 11.5
2. IBM Rational Test workbench v10.1
3. IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition V8.6
   
   

• Eight bundles have been refreshed wrt its applications and SKUs.

1. Red Hat Cloud Suite
2. IBM Cloud Pak for Automation 19.0
3. IBM Rational Software Architect Designer 9.7
4. Acoustic Tealeaf CX V10.0
5. Microsoft Office 365 (Plan G3) for Government
6. JetBrains dotUltimate
7. Red Gate SQL ToolBelt
8. Red Gate .Net Developer Bundle 7.5

• IBM PVU points table has been updated and is now up to date with IBM documentation - https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html . Summary of updates:

Description	ProcessorType	MinSockets	MaxSockets	Comments
IBM Power System E1080	120	0	0	Added New Processor Points for Power10
Intel Xeon Bronze with up to 2 sockets	70	1	2	Added New Processor point for Xeon bronze 3100 to 3299 series
Intel Xeon Bronze with 3 to 4 sockets	100	3	4	Added New Processor point for Xeon bronze 3100 to 3299 series
Intel Xeon Bronze with 5 or more sockets	120	5	0	Added New Processor point for Xeon bronze 3100 to 3299 series

• 12 point-rules have been updated to include other Intel Xeon series.
  
  
• SAP has published new measurement IDs in Mar 2022 and their last updates was in Jul 2021. All new updates have been published in this release’s SAP PURL cab file. Summary:

Measurement ID	Engine	SAP Updated date
5310	SAP ERP Cash and Liquidity Management	Jul-21
3403	SAP Tax Declaration Framework	Mar-22
4031	SAP Digital Access License Model for S/4HANA and ECC	Mar-22

• Oracle Processor Core Factor Table has been updated and is now up to date with Oracle documentation here - https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf
  
  
• 15 publisher names in SKU library has been updated and below is a list of their old and new/current name.

Old publisher name in SKU library	Current publisher name in SKU library
/N Software	/n software
Ab Initio	Ab Initio Software
Abbyy	ABBYY
Accellion	ACCELLION
Access Data	AccessData
Investintech	Investintech.com
Itext	iText Group
Kaspersky	Kaspersky Lab
Lsoft	Lsoft Technologies
Maxon	MAXON COMPUTER
Neuxpower	Neuxpower Solutions
O&O	O&O Software
Orginlab	OriginLab
Ptv	PTV Group
Red Gate	Red Gate Software

• 3508 new SKUs have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher:

	Manufacturer	Newly added SKUs
1	Eset	2398
2	Kaspersky	247
3	Cisco	166
4	Microsoft	79
5	Others	618
Total		3508

• Library information are as follows:
1. Total number of SKUs in the library is 21,56,709 across 1,164 publishers.
2. Total number of PURL templates is 3,871 across 48 publishers.
3. Total number of published Bundles is 4,469 across 21 publishers.

How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated? 

You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900

Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’.

How do I report issues with SKU Library updates? 

Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address:

• support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America)
• support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)

The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates 

We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, Apr 22nd 2022.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task,

or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, Apr 25^th 2022 in your time zone.

Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually 

The SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0). 

Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe...

Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.

Regards,
Team Content