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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 was available on Monday, May 27th 2023 in your time zone.

What's new in this release?

  • 7,697 new SKUs have been added to the SKU library. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher: 

Manufacturer

# of New SKUs

Adobe

3645

Trend Micro

2601

IBM

372

Arcserve

330

Others

749

Total

7697

 

  • More than 600 SKUs are mapped to their respective applications.
  • SKUs missing PURL templates and existing mapping were refreshed which covered more than 20,000 SKUs. Details on number of SKUs covered across each publisher: 

Publishers

# of SKUs mapped in this release

Adobe

5664

Microsoft

9800

VMware

3342

IBM

1084

Others

2084

TOTAL

21975

 

  • 9 new custom FLX SKUs have been created and released to supplement FSM workflow for the respective products and cater to customer requests. SKUs details are available in attached spreadsheet 'CustomFlexeraSKUsForMay2024.xlsx'.
  • 12 new bundles for IBM and 3 for Microsoft have been added to the library as shared below.

IBM DB2 BLU Acceleration In-Memory Offering 10.5

IBM BigInsights BigIntegrate for Non-Production Environments v11.5

IBM Cloud DevOps

IBM FileNet Image Services - COLD V4.2

IBM Db2 Connect Unlimited Advanced Edition for System z 11.5

IBM Storage Defender 2.0

Microsoft Office 365 E1 EEA (no Teams)

IBM MQ Advanced High Availability Replica 9.3

IBM Cognos PowerPlay Administrator 11

Microsoft 365 GCC G5

Microsoft Office 365 G5 GCC

IBM Db2 Standard Edition for Non-Production 11.5 (AU Option)

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

IBM watsonx.data 1.1

IBM watsonx.data Non-Production 1.1

 

  • Updated 79 existing IBM bundles to have their missing applications now correctly mapped according to the latest IBM literature.

 

  • Library information are as follows:
    • Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,102,975 across 1,690 publishers.
    • Total number of PURL templates is 5,455 across 66 publishers.
    • Total number of published Bundles is 4,523 across 29 publishers.



How do I report issues with SKU/PURL/Bundles Library updates?

Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL/Bundles processing with FlexNet Manager, please contact Flexera Support. Visit Contact-Flexera-Support for more details.

The regular schedule for SKU/PURL/Bundles updates

We expect the next update to the PURL, SKU & Bundles Library to be available on Friday, June 28th 2024. The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated weekly 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, July 1st 2024 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).

For full details on how to install content library files once they have been downloaded, see the "Manual Updates of Library Data" topic in the Installing FlexNet Manager Suite On-Premises PDF applicable to your version of FlexNet Manager Suite.

To locate this PDF,  go to the Flexera Product Documentation website and select your FlexNet Manager Suite version from the VERSION drop down list. The file will now be listed and available for you to download.

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