I'd like to refer everyone to the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/ENUS217-085.PDF
As mentioned in the preview, IBM plans to add the Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) to the base z/OS operating system and also to allow Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and their customers to generate ISV-unique SCRT reports. There are already some ISVs that have tools and products that "reference" another product -- a CICS tool vendor that charges according to the SCRT reported CICS utilization, for example. Assuming IBM is able to follow through on its plans for SCRT, SCRT would be able to track individual ISV product utilizations directly. I encourage ISVs that are presently relying on key-based approaches to, instead, take advantage of these new SCRT capabilities if/when IBM ships them. The basic idea is that your customers would generate and send SCRT reports per normal, including to you. Then, if you didn't get a report for a particular month, you'd have a contractually pre-agreed process to follow which might, in due course, involve sending a bill. I'm expressing my own personal views, as always. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
