On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 19:03:57 +0100, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
>W dniu 03.11.2020 o 23:19, Attila Fogarasi pisze: >> The product announcement letter gives the VUE value. I have never seen a >> consolidated web page for all products/VUEs, you have to look at the >> specific announcement letter applicable to your product. For example for >> CICS TS 5.6 it is VUE007. Luckily its easy to find IBM >> announcement letters >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 3:05 AM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is about IBM software licensing. >>> For OTC there are VUE - Value Unit Exhibits. >>> There some non-linear relationship between MSU and VUE number, but there >>> are several VUE's and the same machine have 300 VUE007, but 350 VUE008, >>> etc. (Number are examples only). >>> >>> Now it time for the question: How to find out which VUEnnn is applicable >>> to given product? Is there any table or other webpage with such >>> information? >>> >>> -- >>> Radoslaw Skorupka >>> Lodz, Poland >>> > >It seems you are right, unfortunately there is no such place with VUE to >product assignment. >However review of LPS or other documents describing VUE assigned to the >product is really troublesome. >BTW: THANK YOU ROGER FOR YOUR HELP! > >Some remarks for record purposes: > >1. Some Licensed Product Specifications are available as PDF (good), >some are available online (average) and some are available as hardcopy >only (bad!). The last one I read on IBM pages and I really could not >find the document having its publication ID. >2. VUE calculator is good for calculations, but will not help to know >which VUE is assigned to given product. This is obsolete tool, it does >not containt VUE040, which is probably newer than the tool. More, this >tool has no explanation of term and acronyms used in the VUEs. >3. There is some document (few pages) describing all VUEs I know. It can >be used instead of calculator, because the formulas are quite simple. >4. Reviewing LPSes and Announcement Letters is not something nice, >especially you have to pay attention to version of the product! For >example MFA product changed VUE metrics! It can be really misleading - 1 >VUE for previous version meant 1 user, but for current version it is >"block of users" which means 500 users. Big difference. >5. VUE itself is loosely related to money. For example popular VUE007 is >assigned to CICS TS as well as small products like TACM. And of course >CICS is more expensive. However you can negotiate "price per unit" as >with gold or potatoes - and then there is a measure for upgrades, etc. >6. Why VUE, but not MSU or users, or terabytes? Simply to have >degressive prices per real unit. For example firs user is 1 VUE. Second >user is another 1 VUE, 10 users is 10 VUE, but 1000 users is 800 VUE. >Same for MSU. > >-- The following site may make your life a little easier searching for Announcement Letters - https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/SearchResult.wss?request_locale=en# Roger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
