Monday, August 4, 2014: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Room 310 (David L. Lawrence Convention Center)
Speaker:
Alan Sherkow(I/S Management Strategies, Ltd.)
IBM’s Sub-Capacity Workload License Charges (WLC) introduced in October 2000 began to disconnect IBM’s Monthly License Charge (MLC) for key software products from being based on the customer’s installed mainframe capacity. This has continued, but each site must take action to reduce their IBM MLC and zIPLA charges. It is the customer’s responsibility to determine the best software pricing options for their site(s). This session will discuss the current and most recent IBM pricing metrics for System z hardware, software asset management, leveraging PricngPlexes, Defined Capacity, LPAR Group Capacity Limits, the need for auditing both the SCRT input to IBM and the resultant software invoices.
Tracks: IT Services Delivery