This is my opinion only. IBM is doing this to make these WebSphere products more attractive for implementation on zSeries. Why not make these straight VWLC? well lots of sites have bought value units and don't want to pay monthly for these again.
This is a guess, because the announcement is quite vague about how this will work, but the only way SCRT can measure a product within an LPAR using the SMF70 and SMF89 data is through the CPU consumption data that is already in the SMF89 data. They are doing now for MQ Series with the SALC metric. So that precedent already exists. In effect like SALC this is another type of measured usage within sub-capacity pricing that does not allow measured usage. "Oh what a tangled web we weave" Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) Al Sherkow Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, WLC, LPARs, IRD and *LCS Software* Seminars on IBM SW Pricing, LPARs, and IRD 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: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
