I don't quite understand how the US Announcement (312-001) that clearly states:
------------------------ Today, IBM® announces a price increase for the z/OS® operating system. Effective with the billing period that starts on or after April 1, 2012 the monthly license charges (MLC) will increase for the following program and its features: Program number Program name 5694-A01 z/OS® V1 ------------------------ is already causing increased charges for some sites as reported on IBM-MAIN. (I don't mean to doubt those people, I would just like to understand). For full capacity sites the April 1st invoice should be the installed capacity (MSUs) on April 1, 2012. For sub-capacity sites the February Data (Feb 2 to March 1) arrives at IBM between March 2 and March 9th. This updates the inventory for each sub-capacity product so that the April 1st invoice for sub-capacity products is based on the SCRT MSUs that have updated the inventory. Of course someone might have terms and conditions signed with IBM that allow any announced pricing increases to immediately take effect. Doubt that too. Perhaps some business partners are trying to get the increase early. Just seems strange to me. Using the announcement letter as documentation of the effective date I think if I were advising those sites I would tell them to push back and not to pay the increase until the April 1st invoice. 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
