In everything I've been lead to believe is true (in the US), an ELA doesn't relieve you from paying for the actual cost of MLC software capacity that you've consumed. You may have "budgeted" an amount of $x/month for MLC in the ELA and that's the amount of the check you send IBM every month. But they track the actual amount that you've used as reported via SCRT. At the end of each year, the total SCRT-reported charges are compared to the amount you paid IBM. If you paid IBM too much, good for them, too bad for you. If you paid them too little, you owe them the difference. Tails IBM wins, heads you lose.
So if you're in an ELA, you should be tracking that difference so you know whether to be prepared for the bill, or possibly turn up your caps a little bit to get some more work done. Planning for an ELA is an interesting combination of capacity planning, timing of software and hardware upgrades and unannounced price change guessing. Predicting all those things more than 15 months out is mostly guesswork. If somebody knows of ELAs working differently, then I'd desperately like to hear about it. Scott Chapman On Wed, 15 May 2013 05:19:45 -0400, Richards, Robert B. <[email protected]> wrote: >Timothy, > >That is not exactly true. Even with an ELA, you are required to still collect >the SMF data and submit the SCRT reports as before. It is just that the >monthly invoice should be substantially lower! > >When I had an ELA, I compared the monthly LCS invoice against the monthly ELA >amount to demonstrate to executive management the exact value of the ELA on a >monthly basis. > >Bob > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Timothy Sipples >Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:07 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Predict WLC invoice amount ... > >There are also Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs) which probably at least >reduce the intensity of worrying about this stuff month to month. "Ask your >IBM representative." > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Timothy Sipples >GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) >E-Mail: [email protected] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
