IBM Licensing Beyond Processor Value Units

IBM Licensing
Beyond Processor Value Units
Introduction
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Eric Chiu, Director
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Stuart Burns,
Partner
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Rafi Saville,
Partner
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Beyond PVU
Truth on RVUs
Users
Top 5 Non-PVU Risks
Mainframe
Approach
LMO
How IBM applications are typically licensed?
IBM has 143 active licence metrics (charge metrics) as of March 2015. By
including legacy metrics the figure goes beyond 200.
3 of these metrics can be tracked by any tool

Per Install

Per Processor Value Unit (PVU)

Per Core (Core based RVU)
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Beyond PVU
Truth on RVUs
Users
Top 5 Non-PVU Risks
Mainframe
Approach
LMO
Here is some evidence
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Beyond PVU
Truth on RVUs
Users
Top 5 Non-PVU Risks
Mainframe
Approach
LMO
What is RVU?
Resource Value Unit (RVU) is a unit of measure by which the Program can
be licensed. RVU Proofs of Entitlement are based on the number of units of
a specific resource used or managed by the Program. Licensee must
obtain sufficient entitlements for the number of RVUs required for Licensee's
environment for the specific resources as specified in the table below.
RVU entitlements are specific to the Program and the type of resource and
may not be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with RVU
entitlements of another program or resource.
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Top 5 Non-PVU Risks
Mainframe
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Example 1 – IBM Interact
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Example 2 - Tivoli Monitoring
Example 3 - IBM NetCool Network Management
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Example 4- Cognos BI – the latest user licensing models
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Cognos Licensing – Key Differences
Information Distribution
Analytics
Analytic Explorer
£1,891
£1,019
£337 (PVU)
Admin = £11,432
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Cognos – User Capability Mapping Process
Extract User
from Systems
Map Users to
Access
Levels
(Studios)
Map Access
to Licences
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Example 5 - Maximo
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Maximo – an example query to identify user accessing more than 3 modules
select usrname from maxusergroups where usrname <> grpname and grpname in (select distinct
name from maxuserauth M where (select count(distinct module)
from maxuserauth N, maxapps A where A.app=N.app and N.optionname = N.app and
N.optionvalue <> 0 and M.name=N.name) > 3);
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The Top 5 IBM Licence Compliance Risk that is NOT Sub-Capacity Related
5) Application
specific
restrictions
1) User role &
access
definition
4)
Multiplexing
2) RVU
tracking
3) Server role
definition
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Mainframe Compliance & Cost Savings
Unlicensed Product & Features
The built-in SCRT report on average only reports
75% of the enabled products and features
Sysplex & Sub-Capacity Violation
Undeployed Software
You are charged for all entitled MLC titles in your
contract even they are not deployed
Unnecessary Licensed Capacity
Stringent eligible criteria causes incompliance
which often increases licence cost by 10+ times
The average licensed capacity excess (unused
capacity) is over 20% per mainframe contract
Complex Licence Calculation
Sub-Capacity Licensing Discounts
From PSF Printers points to IPLA Value Units,
calculating correct licence count is challenging
Many customers are unaware or unclear of the
platforms and products eligible for sub-capacity
Alessandro Paolo Iannucci
IBM Mainframe
Licensing Specialist
[email protected]
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How to approach IBM licence measurement – Top Down First
Top Down
then
Bottom up
ILMT Deployment & Validation
Bundling, coverage & accuracy
PVU
Additional Information Required
What IBM
Licences
are have
been
bought
ILMT Report
Verification &
Sign-off
Effective
Usage
i.e.
NonPVU
Design Data Collection
Methodology
to measure usage according to
charge metrics
Manual Calculation
Licence
Requirement
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What’s IBM Licence Management Option

ESSO/NGSA Customers Only, offered at contract renewal or under audit

You need to be able to demonstrate to IBM that you have a mature SAM process
that satisfies IBM Licence Management requirements, and these processes must be
certified by IBM auditors first (Process Audit instead of Licence Audit).

Quarterly self-audited compliance reporting to IBM

Replacement of audit clause with self-reporting
Is IBM LMO for You?
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