WebLogic Edition Recognition
An enhancement for WebLogic edition recognition is planned for June 02nd ARL. The goal is to better recognize the editions and decrease the risk of false positives coming from Oracle Universal Install...
Blog posts from partners, community members and the Flexera team
Blog Articles
Change in Java recognition
The Flexera content team will apply two changes to Java Platform recognition: Stop using installer evidence. Installer evidence can cause false positives (Oracle Universal Installer Evidence particul...
***Reverted***Populating Lifecycle Dates for IBM Products on Support code published by IBM
Change Title Populating Lifecycle Dates for IBM Products on Support code published by IBM Class 2 Customers should be aware and be prepared Change Summary Upon further research and validation by...
***Completed*** Content Change Notification: Technopedia – ARL Crosswalk
Change TitleMajor Changes in Technopedia - ARL CrosswalkClass 1Customers should be prepared and take actionChange Summary As part of our Technopedia - ARL crosswalk quality initiative, we have come up...
Content Change Notification - IBM Product Name Change and Publisher change Content Notification
Db2 Product Changes In order to accommodate specific PVU licensing rules (where DB2 Enterprise Server is primary and DB2 for Workgroup is supplementary) or VPC rules where the ratios are not the same ...
Managing requirement for File Evidence
Synopsis: This article discusses the eligibility of file evidence submitted by customers that can be accepted into the ARL for processing. With huge submissions of file evidence, it has necessitated ...
Content Change Notification: Change in the recognition rules for Adobe Acrobat DC
Summary Recently a major concern was raised with Adobe where both Adobe Reader and Acrobat DC leave the same footprint in Add/Remove programs in the form of installer evidence. This causes multiple fa...
Content Change Notification: Creation of a new WebSphere Application Network Deployment product that will require fixing
IBM has a number of products that have different requirements across editions for PVU (Primary or supplementary) or VPC (different ratios). Those products do not provide entitlement to downgrade and u...
Content Change Notification - IBM partnership with Breakwater and publisher name change
IBM has established a new partnership with Breakwater solutions. They have transitioned IBM StoredIQ, IBM StoredIQ for Legal, IBM StoredIQ InstaScan, and the IBM Atlas suite of products to Breakwater ...
Content Change Notification - Microsoft Visio and Project Name and version changes
Note:The below changes were originally part of the February 25th ARL, SKU/PURL/Bundle release. However, the changes had unintended consequences. With the 11th of March release, we reverted the chang...
Content Update: Import Issue with Service Life Data Pack # 505.
An issue has been identified with Service Life Data Pack # 505 due to duplicate entries. The is fixed and released a newer build version 506. Similarly, a newer version of ARL has been generated as th...
Content Change Notification - Symantec to Broadcom and NortonLifeLock - Publisher name change.
Change Title Symantec to Broadcom and NortonLifeLock - Publisher name change. Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take action Change Summary Symantec's enterprise security business was acqu...
Change in Java recognition on Unix
The FlexNet Manager agent has been enhanced with version 2020 R2.1 (on-premise version: 2021R1) to collect the result of the “Java -version” command ran on each java instance, to collect the build num...
No new applications with file evidence with recognition rules "Not for recognition"
FNMS only tracks usage for applications that are detected as installed. If there are no rules to detect the application as installed, then the "Usage rule" is not helpful. In other words, If there are...
FlexNet Manager Update: Application Recognition Library #2594
We had an issue with the previous ARL build 2593 with respect to the PointsRuleSet table, due to which ARL import was failing. We have identified and fixed it as part of the latest ARL build 2594.
2nd UPDATE - ARL Removal (RE: Content Change Notification - Technopedia and ARL Eligibility and Coverage Updates)
This is the 2nd UPDATE to the Class 1 Content Change Notification - Technopedia and ARL Eligibility and Coverage Updates published on December 23, 2020 posted here. The 1st UPDATE (posted here) has b...
Major Changes in Technopedia - ARL Crosswalk
Change TitleMajor Changes in Technopedia - ARL CrosswalkClass 1Customers should be prepared and take actionChange Summary The Technopedia – ARL Crosswalk provides a means to associate Technopedia soft...
Technical difficulties with ARL publication
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties deploying the January 1 ARL release as scheduled. We are currently working on the issue but do not yet have an ETA for resolution. We will continue...
Error in Application Recognition Library (ARL) #2433 affecting some Oracle applications
The Application Recognition Library (ARL) #2433, released on July 1st, 2019 contains an error affecting the following Oracle applications. Oracle Database 11g R1 EnterpriseOracle Database 11g R1 Enter...
