IBM Licensing Newsletter for June 2022
🤝Welcome Welcome to this, the first "round up" of what I found interesting in the world of IBM Licensing. I'm still figuring out the format so your suggestions are welcome in the comments below. 📢 IBM Licensing News and Announcements After...
You need to routinely check (at least annually) that the PA contacts are still valid. In particular the Primary Contact for the PA site.
“*IBM License Tip* Reduce your IBM license costs by demonstrating your backup is not a Hot Standby” Introduction When it comes to reducing your IBM licensing costs one of the easiest ways to reduce the number of licenses required and...
*IBM License Tip* Don’t let VMs with IBM products “wander” around the server farm
Overview If your company wants to take advantage of the significant cost reductions IBM sub-capacity licensing offers it is important that you have ILMT, deployed, configured, and correctly reporting your usage. ILMT is a very powerful but complex tool to...
Background To buy IBM licenses you will need to enrol in either the IBM Passport Advantage Express (PAX) or IBM Passport Advantage (PA) programs. The IBM Passport Advantage Express (PAX) program is used by organisation who are buying relatively small...
Introduction When an organization receives notice of an IBM audit the wording is generic. This is intentional as the auditor doesn’t know what you have and will want as much latitude as possible to search for compliance gaps. It is...
Got IBM products? Are you sure the ILMT audit snapshot reports have been run this quarter & are they correct? If you have IBM products in you network you will almost certainly need to be running the IBM license...
“Take advantage of Supporting Products to reduce IBM license costs” When you buy an IBM product (also know as a Program) you are usually buying a collection of products. The main product is referred to as the Principle Program. ...