Everyone: Just to add some competitiveness to this string, RSM Partners also provides this type of capability, and, can identify where you can reduce your software costs by anywhere from 10% to 25% (or more in some cases). Check them out at www.rsmpartners.com.
With Regards, Mitch McCluhan, Legacy Modernization Consultant -----Original Message----- From: Al Sherkow <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 10:32 am Subject: Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ... Thanks Bob! If you are using sub-capacity WLC (in any flavor) then you can use the MSUs from he SCRT reports you are sending to IBM to calculate the invoice for the month ust completed. For sites in the US my tool "LPAR Capacity and Software Usage nalysis Software (LCS)" does calculate the resulting invoice to the penny for ommercial and GSA (government) customers. If you are in another geography IBM may supply you with the prices for the roducts you are using and those can be entered into LCS and then LCS can alculate these other invoices. Sites have done this in Switzerland, United ingdom, Australia, Canada and perhaps more. LCS fully understand aggregation of PricingPlexes and both MLC and IPLA roducts. We also provide XLS tools that can calculate the prices if you want to stimate future MSUs. As Kees pointed out the future is easier to understand if ou are using capping. A site with good, mature, reliable capacity planning, is probably focused on he hardware. The Hardware MSUs may not be the same as the software MSUs, but hat would provide an "upper bound" estimate of future software prices. Software SUs is not necessarily the same as SCRT's calculated four hour rolling average ither. -- l Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. onsulting Expertise on IBM Workload License Charges (WLC), PARs and LCS Software eminars on IBM Mainframe Software Pricing 1 414 332-3062 --------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
