A few comments: ONE: SCRT V24.11.1, in all the various flavors (Java zOS, linux, windows) delivered "Sub-Capacity Reports for ISV products" (see <https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=ZSL03435USEN>. I don't which ISVs are participating.
TWO: I can see an ISV being interested if they are competing with IBM products that are charged based on SCRT reports. Examples would be competitors to IMS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere App Server, (lots of other Websphere brand products), COBOL, NETVIEW, MQ Series, etc. But the infrastructure to support monthly, rather than the typical annual invoicing is a big undertaking. I'll also point that that many IBM products do not use SCRT for invoicing, and some that do use SCRT reporting still haven't added generating SMF89 functionality into the product. THREE: Do data center usually know in advance the serial numbers of the machines they will use for DR? (A number of my licensees have asked for their DR machines to be added to their license keys. I've always done that without question.) FOUR: While I'm a "small" vendor I've already encountered licensees trying to cheat me. I license per data center. One weekend I was contacted for "a new machine was just installed in the 2nd data center". I provided the key, and then I sent a letter asking for an explanation of their 2nd data center. It had been going on for years.... FIVE: in my product I don't require a license key for the daily data extraction and collection process. The license key is only used during analysis, reporting and auditing of SCRT. Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on IBM Workload License Charges (WLC) Seminars on IBM Mainframe Software Pricing since 2003 +1 414 332-3062 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
