Change Title Galvanize to Diligent Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary Galvanize has completed the acquisition of Diligent. Flexera will migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘Galvanize’ to ‘Diligent’. https://www.wegalvanize.com/       Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names, or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organisation. The spreadsheet Galvanize Migrated to Diligent Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher’s name will be renamed from Galvanize to Diligent.     When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from October 10th th  to 14 th . ... View more

Change Title Amazon Aurora Version changes in Technopedia Change Type Class 2 Change Summary Flexera is going to update the version for Amazon Aurora products in Technopedia. As of now, the versions for this product are captured in date format, and we will be deleting those releases. New releases will be created for these products with version format as in major.minor.   Reference link Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID and discovered data which is mapped to old release IDs. All relevant discovered data mappings will be remapped to new releases. The attached spreadsheet provides the full list of all releases in scope for this review which will be created or removed, or reserved. When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from 26 th Sept 22 to 30 th Sept 2022 ... View more

Change Title EMS to Accruent Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary EMS has completed the acquisition of Accruent. Flexera will migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘EMS to ‘Accruent’.    Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names, or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. The spreadsheet EMS Migrated to Accruent Product list.xlsx provides the complete list of all the Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name will be renamed from EMS to Accruent.  When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from September 26 th to 30 th . ... View more

Problem We are facing technical challenges with the daily Technopedia releases. New additions or changes to the Technopedia are not reflected in the catalogue until the issue is fixed. Which Components are affected Technopedia, API When it started The issue started on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022.  ETA Update 8/8:  The issue is resolved. All of our Technopedia and Teachnopedia API customers should be able to see the changes made to the content since the outage.     ... View more

Change title: IDM Computer Solutions to Idera Class 2: Customers should be prepared and take action Due to the acquisition of IDM Computer Solutions by Idera, products previously identified by the manufacturer name "IDM Computer solutions" will be changed to "Idera". For details on the acquisition, see the article Idera, Inc. Acquires UltraEdit. Change summary IDM Computer Solutions has completed the acquisition of Idera. Flexera will migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name "IDM Computer Solutions" to "Idera".  Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change requires customers to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. The attached spreadsheet IDM Migrated to IDERA Product list.xlsx provides the full list of all Technopedia products for which the manufacturer name will be renamed from "IDM Computer Solutions" to "Idera".  When These changes will occur from July 6 th  to July 12 th . ... View more

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 upgrade to a different edition of those products. For example, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Network Deployment editions have their own license to VPC ratios. When they are part of the same bundle license both need to have their product use right and consumption based on their own individual product ratios. IBM product user right does not allow to use of different editions under the one product edition use rights.   To provide license position for each induvial product edition when they are licensed part of the same bundle license / a Cloud Pak license, there is a need to split these product editions into each individual product to allow setting use right for each individual product edition so that we can provide license position contribution for each product edition individually.   The first change will be with WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, will have their own product (WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core is already a separate product). A new product: "WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment" will be created in the May 13th ARL release. All existing WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment will be linked to this new product (and the applications will have no longer an edition, as the product will be unique for Network Deployment). This means the FlexeraID will not be changed, for WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment" 9.0 for instance, the application with FlexeraID arl://MGS-APP-00000227915 will link to the new product (WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment), to version 9.0... and will be linked to no edition Therefore, you will be able to link the WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core to a license/s with a different license to PVC ratios.   Note: The licenses that are linked to WAS ND applications will still be linked to the main version but will lose the Upgrade/downgrade rights you need to fix the licenses linked to the new product.   To fix the Licenses linked to the new product (That you can identify by opening the license tab of the applications (filter: Product = WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Licensed = 1), you need to: Open the relevant license Go to the "Use Rights & Rules" tab and edit the "WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment" Product to add the same "upgrade/downgrade" version use rights as the "WebSphere Application" product. Please also check Primary/Supplementary (that will be primary by default on the new Product) and check the VPC ratio and each product will have its own license to VPC ratio. We are sorry for the inconvenience of having to fix the licenses but splitting the applications into two products is the only way that allows managing these specific license terms that are different between two editions of a product.   When: These changes will be part of the May 13 th release. ... View more

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 [1]. Flexera content libraries will be changed to reflect the new Publisher name. The attached file shows the 27 products where the publisher name will be changed from IBM to BreakWater. These changes are expected to be part of the ARL  release on February 25 th 2022. Reference: https://www.consulting.us/news/5599/breakwater-solutions-spins-off-from-ibm-gets-funding-from-jll-partners ... View more

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 changes and re-activated Visio and Project 2016, 2019, Standard and Professional (that were ignored). The evidences that got linked to the new 16.0 and 17.0 versions are re-linked to the commercial versions.   Based on changes made by Microsoft on Visio and Project, Application Recognition Library (ARL) need to change Product, Version for existing Microsoft Visio and Project applications.   Product Change: Microsoft ‘Office Visio’ and ‘Office Project’ have been renamed ‘Visio’ and ‘Project’ respectively. All the versions of these products in ARL will be updated accordingly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/visio/flowchart-software https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/project/project-management-software   Version Change: Often, Microsoft will release versions based on the build, and the 16.0 version connects with the 2016, 2019 and 2021 versions. We are going to maintain an internal version for 2016, 2019, 2021 as  16.0  and for 2019 as  17.0  in ARL..   New product Application name Version  Old version Project Project 17.0 2019 Project Project 16.0 2016/2019/2021 Project Office Project 2013 and below versions   Visio Visio 17.0 2019 Visio Visio 16.0 2016/2019/2021 Visio Office Visio 2013 and below versions       ... View more

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 there are no changes between 2658 and ARL build number 2659. Relevant Repositories has been updated.  ... View more

Classification: Class 2 Content Notification The two Adobe suites were recognized as a suite in the older versions of FNMS. The licenses were not multi-product and for a device license type, hiding the components (when there were more than three) behind the suite product was a practical way of not double-counting the license consumptions.   FlexNet Manager has supported multi-products licenses for years, and Adobe Licenses are managed with Named user license types. User subscriptions can be imported through the SaaS Manager connection or the solution posted here:  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Adobe-Subscriptions-Optimization-Report-amp-Adobe-Portal-Users/ta-p/195352 .   The suite recognition brings no more value for Named User licenses and hides which components are installed and used, which is a major challenge from optimizing the Adobe subscriptions. After the ARL Update of December 24th, we will remove the suite links. Please note that the FlexNet bundles (and SKUs) will contain bundling definitions and allow the creation of accurate licenses.   Below are the suites that are going to remove from ARL.     ... View more

Classification - Class 2 Change Notification Oracle Universal Installer Evidences (OUI) are a cause for false positives. FlexNet Manager, for licensing purposes, cannot trust OUI data for Oracle Options (that are collected by the Oracle Inventory scripts and are set as used after multiple queries). As of the ARL Update of December 24th, OUI installer evidences will be intentionally ignored. You will be able to see the raw evidences from the Inventory Devices (or unrecognized evidences devices tab), but these evidences will no longer trigger application recognition for Oracle Options. Regarding Oracle Database, OUI evidences will also leave false positives (when the database are upgraded, for instance) and cause many “unspecified editions” installations.    Considering that OUI evidence could still be a sign that the Oracle inventory failed for all instances on a server, the precedence rules for Oracle will be modified the following way:    Oracle Unspecified will be removed by any later Oracle Database Standard or Enterprise Edition version. Thus, all false positives due to upgrades will be removed. If Oracle Installer says Oracle Database is installed, but the instance is inventoried on the server, Oracle Unspecified Edition installation will warn on a possible Oracle Inventory issue.   OUI Evidence spreadsheet is attached for reference.   ... View more

Change Title Manufacturer Name changes in Technopedia Class 2 Customers should be aware and be prepared Change Summary Flexera is unifying Manufacturer names to be consistent across our internal repositories. The Manufacturer names in the attached file "Manufacturer Name Changes 12072021" are being changed in Technopedia. 75 Manufacturer names will be changed but the Manufacturer IDs will remain the same.  Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID's and Names to manage downstream processes and report in their organization. The impact is expected to be low. The attached list of Manufacturers is in scope to be renamed. When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting  from December 21, 2021, to December 27, 2021 . . ... View more

Change Title Manufacturer Name changes in Technopedia Class 2 Customers should be aware and be prepared Change Summary Flexera is unifying Manufacturer names to be consistent across our internal repositories. We are working on the manufacturer unification for the manufacturers' name that has ', The' is at the end of the manufacturer name. For example: ‘Next Ad, The’ will be renamed to ‘The Next Ad’. There are 5385 manufacturers that manufacturer names need to be changed directly (but the manufacturer IDs stay the same), The Manufacturer names in the attached file "Manufacturer Name Changes" will be changed in Technopedia. Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID’s and Names to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.  It is expected to be a low impact. The attached list of Manufacturers is in scope to be renamed. When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from  December 7th, 2021 to December 11th, 2021. ... View more