EMEA pricing is generally higher than the US pricing. At least that was my experience when I was a S/390 Client Rep. in Saudi Arabia sixteen years ago. Price lifts occurred sometimes by EMEA and also sometimes by the IBM xxxxx company (substitute your favorite country for xxxxx).
As to LCS, auditing the SCRT numbers was its original purpose. Also, it had the capability to exclude timeframes long before SCRT was enhanced to support it. In my years of using LCS, it has paid for itself every year in software savings. There is a column in the SCRT spreadsheets labeled "Customer MSUs". I have used it on a monthly basis for COBOL charges for over a decade. As shipped, IBM's LPAR charges for COBOL are close to their z/OS peak consumption. LCS tracks "actual" usage using SMF 30 records and reports it real usage. There is much more to LCS than I have described, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader to pursue at www.sherkow.com. Suffice it to say that I know of no other product that pays for itself many times over, in REAL dollars/euros/your currency. Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ... W dniu 2013-05-14 23:23, Ed Jaffe pisze: > On 5/14/2013 2:05 PM, R.S. wrote: >> Why IBM does not provide price per MSU of z/OS, DB2, IMS, CICS, etc? >> With possible "discounts on n-th MSU", maybe as a formula. > > Here in the U.S., we logon to > https://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/eswprice/PriceESW.wss to see System z > software prices for all metrics, including 'possible "discounts" on > the n-th MSU' (SIC) > > You don't have access to this tool in your country? > "You have attempted to access an IBMLink application which is currently not available in your country. " In my country the only way to get info about prices is to ask IBMer and the IBMer can input data (software set, MSU) to the black box and get an answer. In that way, using several queries, you can have some idea about the curve price=f(MSU). BTW: Since you have access to the IBM prices - what is the reason for purchasing third party tools like LCS? IMHO the only thing I need is spreadsheet + price information from IBM + information what software is used and what MSU. Only second part seems to be a problem. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata. Odbiorc moe by jedynie jej adresat z wyczeniem dostpu osób trzecich. Jeeli nie jeste adresatem niniejszej wiadomoci lub pracownikiem upowanionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, e jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne dziaanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i moe by karalne. Jeeli otrzymae t wiadomo omykowo, prosimy niezwocznie zawiadomi nadawc wysyajc odpowied oraz trwale usun t wiadomo wczajc w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: [email protected] Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2013 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.555.904 zotych. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send 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
