Dave Gibney wrote: >But, is the z/OS MIPS/MSU pricing model (IMO, one of the >major drags on the platform) really being extended into >this arena.
SCRT facilitates sub-capacity licensing of z/OS, z/VSE, and software products for those operating systems such as CICS and WebSphere Application Server. Before SCRT you were generally required to license your whole machine at full capacity for all products. That's still an option if you prefer it; simply skip SCRT. Variable Workload License Charges (VWLC) for z/OS and related products were introduced about 18 years ago. IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) facilitates sub-capacity licensing of software products on Linux (including Linux on Z and LinuxONE), Windows, AIX, and some other operating systems. The details are slightly different, in particular SCRT has some finer granularity (a good thing), but the broad concepts are similar. Likewise, there's no *requirement* to use ILMT. If you don't use ILMT, then you must license the full capacity of the machine (s) where you run the IBM software products. ILMT was introduced many years ago but well after the first SCRT release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
