<font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM is pleased to announce the availability
of IBM BigFix Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool v9.2.3 application
updates.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">These updates improve our reporting
effectiveness and flexibility and for BigFix Inventory expand on its value
to mitigate security risks.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is the list of key features that
have now been delivered: </font><br><font size=2 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Unicode
support </b>which allows to manage easily international environments
and specific country language settings across computers in different geographical
locations. <br>Data is now encoded into UTF-8 format so that it is properly displayed
and interpreted by BigFix. It removes the need to set dedicated code-pages
to work-around previous limitations. </font><br><font size=2 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b> Conditional email notifications and
flexible date filtering </b>on all of the available reports.<br>Allow to aggregate the inventory accordingly to flexible date filtering
criteria as well as to send e-mail notifications to interested parties
when pre-configured alerting conditions are met.</font><br><font size=2 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>iSeries
support </b>for IBM product discovery and sub-capacity licensing reporting.
Delivered as supported limited availability feature</font><br><font size=2 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>BigFix
Inventory option to collect MD5 and SHA256 hash key file checksums to mitigate
security risks. <br></b>Allows IT Operations and SAM departments to closely cooperate with
security teams by collecting key security attributes as part of software
discovery to properly identify security exposures.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You can learn more about this update
on wiki pages:</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for BFI: </font><a href=http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_923><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_923</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for ILMT: </font><a href=http://ibm.biz/ilmt_update_923><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://ibm.biz/ilmt_update_923</font></a><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The official documentation:</font><table width=550 style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr valign=top height=8><td width=548 style="border-style:solid;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding:1px 1px;"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for
BFI: </font><a href=http://ibm.biz/bfi_923_docs><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://ibm.biz/bfi_923_docs</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">for LMT: </font><a href=http://ibm.biz/lmt_923_docs><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://ibm.biz/lmt_923_docs</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"></font></table><br><br><BR>