Here is some of what I wrote to clients and licensees on January 8th: ------ IBM announced price increases for many features of z/OS including the Base feature on January 2nd, 2012. In the US the announcement letter number is 312-001. (In Europe, Middle East, and Africa the announcement was December 30, 2011 with letter number ZA11-1053.)
The February 2 through March 1st usage will be sent to IBM by March 9th, and these price increases will be included in the April 1st IBM MLC invoices. The increases are around 5% for the tiers that have been changed for AWLC, VWLC and ZELC metrics. If you are using Measured Usage and PSLC the z/OS increases are around 6.7%. For some z/OS features only the initial 3 MSUs in a PricingPlex were increased. ------ I was planning to post to IBM-MAIN once I had my analysis complete with some examples, but I haven't finished that work yet. It should not be retroactive, so I'm surprised that John has already had an increase. Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on Mainframe Software Pricing, WLC, LPARs and LCS Software Seminars on IBM SW Pricing Voice: +1 414 332-3062 Web: www.sherkow.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
