IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2 extends national language support
IBM United States
Software Announcement 207-107
May 22, 2007
 ENUS207107.PDF (65KB)
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(Corrected on July 25, 2007)
In the Software requirements section, a software requirement was added. See the "Other software"
heading.
WebSphere Business Services Fabric is an end-to-end platform for the rapid assembly, delivery, and
management of industry-focused business solutions in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It adds
an industry-specific, semantically aware layer to the IBM SOA Foundation to enable dynamic business
service personalization and delivery based on business context. Highlights include:
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Delivers an SOA platform for rapidly assembling, delivering, and managing service-oriented business
solutions
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Builds upon and leverages IBM SOA Foundation products
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Enables policy-driven, dynamic business service adaptation and delivery
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Includes industry content packs with prebuilt industry SOA assets that speed time to market for new
service-oriented business solutions
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Delivers end-to-end, life-cycle governance of business solutions
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Performs semantic mediation of business services across process, service, and data layers
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Manages business services subscriptions and entitlements
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Offers business services metering and utilization tracking
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Includes a repository for authoring and managing metadata around business services, subscribers, and
policies
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at
800-IBM-CALL
(Reference: YE001).
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WebSphere® Business Services Fabric is an end-to-end platform for next-generation,
service-oriented business solutions. It allows clients, system integrators, and ISVs to assemble,
deploy, manage, and govern business services — the building blocks of service-oriented business
solutions.
WebSphere Business Services Fabric includes optional industry content packs that contain prebuilt
SOA assets that can accelerate development of industry-specific service-oriented business solutions.
Features and benefits include:
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End-to-end platform to assemble, deploy, manage, and govern business services
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Extension and enhancement for IBM SOA foundation products
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Standards-based business metadata repository to store and manage business services, policies, and
business service entitlements
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Highly scalable dynamic assembler that enables business service adaptation and delivery based on
content, context, and contract
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Eclipse- and Web-based tooling to enable collaborative assembly and management of business services
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Visual assembly environment for creating and managing industry-specific business service metadata
models and policies
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Business services utilization, reuse, and metering tools that can interoperate with external
monitoring systems
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Business services governance across product life cycle, including versioning and migration across
environments
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Industry content packs that have prebuilt reference business services templates for supported
industries
What's new
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WebSphere Business Services Fabric supports the building of national language support (NLS)-enabled
solutions through its distributed platform Tool Pack in the following national languages: English,
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and
Traditional Chinese
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Currency with other WebSphere products, including WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 and WebSphere
Integration Developer V6.0.2
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WebSphere Business Services Fabric adds support for:
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Linux™:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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SUSE 9 Linux Enterprise Server
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Sun Solaris 10
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Supported operating environments:
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AIX 5L™ V5.3
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Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003 Enterprise Server
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Linux:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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SUSE 9 Linux Enterprise Server
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Sun Solaris 10
For details, refer to the
Hardware requirements
and
Software requirements
sections.
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June 29, 2007, electronic software delivery
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July 20, 2007, media and documentation
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WebSphere Business Services Fabric consists of:
IBM Business Services Foundation Pack
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Provides a highly scalable run-time policy definition and enforcement
engine that enables dynamic service assembly and service behavior
adaptation based on content, context, and contract.
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Controls and automates entitlement of business services for subscribers,
enabling creation, control, and management of service packages to
subscribers across the ecosystem. Integrates with leading security and
identity management products.
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Offers visibility and monitoring of service-oriented processes and
applications. Includes multiperspective views and enables drill-down
analysis of events and exceptions.
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Enables end-to-end governance of business services through design, run
time, deployment, and management.
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Stores and manages business services, policies, and business service
entitlements.
IBM Business Services Tool Pack
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Includes user tools to maintain, manage, and govern services metadata,
subscribers, policies, and governance processes.
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Enables domain-experienced software architects to model, create, publish,
and manage industry-specific service metadata models and policies around
data, processes, resources, policies, and domains.
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Enables a visual assembly environment for creating and managing
industry-specific business service metadata models and policies.
Industry content packs
Reference business services templates in an industry-content pack consist
of the following prebuilt SOA assets:
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Business service metadata that includes definitions of business policy
assertions, business roles, and business channels, based on the industry
business glossary.
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Industry business glossary that presents a taxonomy of industry terms,
including the relationship and properties as an ontology.
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Industry-standards-based data types and Web service interfaces that
enable interoperability across disparate systems in the enterprise
ecosystem.
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Industry-common services that speed the delivery and assembly of
composite business services.
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Industry business object model (BOM) ontology used as a conceptual model
for design and development of service-oriented business solutions.
Available industry content packs:
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IBM Insurance P&C Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses on
the property and casualty systems for insurance enterprises.
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IBM Healthcare Payor Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric focuses
on the payor processes in healthcare enterprises.
Functions and benefits
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An integrated environment to rapidly model, assemble, deploy, and manage
service-oriented business solutions:
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Provides a robust environment to accurately express and execute business
intent through technology.
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Offers a complete set of WebSphere-driven technologies to deliver dynamic
function in a single product that includes connectivity infrastructure,
process integration, and solution construction. You can work with a
controlled, common model to orchestrate, mediate, connect, map, and
execute the underlying IT functions across a your IT landscape.
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Enables a collaborative environment to assemble instead of code business
solutions to help reduce development efforts for building solutions.
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Improves visibility to business and IT assets to enable greater reuse and
improve time-to-value when creating service-oriented business solutions.
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Includes a full set of role-based tools and consoles to reduce the need
to purchase or build additional tools and instrumentation.
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Offers a compelling set of WebSphere tools for people, information, and
application integration.
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Ability to leverage rather than replace legacy, packaged, and custom
applications:
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Acts as a controllable and structured front-end environment for fragile
and rigid applications with dynamic, component-driven, and reusable
assets and building blocks assembled into service-oriented business
solutions
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Interoperates with both IBM and other vendors' products using open
standards to wrap and consolidate your heritage technology assets with
dynamic and modern service-oriented business solutions
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Is supported by a growing business partner ecosystem of content, code,
methodologies, and documentation that you can use to help expedite
delivery of your service-oriented business solutions
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Ability to define and leverage common industry semantics as the language
for simplifying interoperability between disparate systems:
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Enables a flexible, extensible, SOA-based environment that is business
aware and is readily made industry relevant using reference content
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Provides a controlled environment that uses open standards to represent
the relationships and associations to codify business intentions and
enforce business designs
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Readily consumes line of business and industry standard models and
associates them with existing and expected SOA components to create
business and industry appropriate service-oriented business solutions
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Removes the need to repeatedly define, capture, and code industry and
business meaning into each technology interface, artifact, and
application
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Life-cycle management and governance of business services:
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Includes prebuilt tools, consoles, and capabilities for managing
artifacts and service-oriented business solutions
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Offers a manageable and controllable service-oriented business solution
environment to ensure asset reuse, alignment to business concepts,
reduction of development churn, and capacity to control new development
costs
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Maintains, retires, restores, and versions solution components and
pathways
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Personalized business service delivery and dynamic solution behavior:
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Enables the reuse of business services through dimensional, contextually
aware business service assembly as a solution is executing
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Offers multiple personalized user experiences while still enforcing the
high-level business process
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Introduces a first-of-a-kind approach for the creation, enforcement, and
delivery of dynamic solution behavior through the application of business
policies and intentions
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Adds flexibility into solutions without adding onerous development
efforts by enabling multiple channels to leverage, reuse, and extend
process pathways during execution
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Ability to define and manage subscriber entitlements and portfolios:
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Delivers significantly improved solution deployment and enablement —
often without having to migrate any code or artifacts
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Dramatically improves solution deployment options without requiring a
continuous stream of code deployments and migrations of solution elements
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Offers a prebuilt scaffolding of function for the insertion of
self-servicing and enrollment into business solutions, thereby enabling
substantial business savings for solution operation and administration
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Repository for service metadata, policy, and subscriber information:
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Enables a centralized storage mechanism for business relevant metadata
that can be leveraged in creation of solutions and content while reducing
duplication of information across a customer environment
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Lets you create and use business policies that you can apply to drive
solution behavior and dynamic execution
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Enables you to apply consistently and collaboratively use business
metadata from a single source to dynamically influence and enforce
solution behavior
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Includes associated tooling so that you can capture, define, arrange, and
systematically store pertinent and reusable business information,
context, and meaning around solution components
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Prebuilt industry common services and industry SOA models:
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Lets you jump-start development of service-oriented business solutions
with prebuilt and preconfigured industry content
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Optimized to industry and technical best practices, thus ensuring
consistency and reuse
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Ensures repeatability and alignment across global locations, product
lines, and business processes
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Operates with reproducible patterns and specifications to help you and
your developers and system integrators to customize and extend industry
content with customer-specific interpretations and standards
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Enables you and your partners to plug in your SOA assets to predefined
reference business services templates
Feature details
Storage of business services, subscribers, and policies to enable
assembly of service-oriented business solutions:
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Central repository for business service metadata, industry ontologies,
policies, and subscribers
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OWL/RDF-based, metamodel, allowing for capturing semantics and easy
extensibility
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Ontology-driven semantic mediation and interoperability
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Ability to federate metadata from other repositories such as LDAP systems
and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
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Conflict detection during collaborative development
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Powerful search, dependency, and impact analysis
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Sourcing and syndication of ISV and third-party IT assets into the
catalog
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Role-based, context, and namespace level security that leverages existing
access control systems
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Support for entire metadata life cycle, including comprehensive
versioning, change tracking, and collaborative governance of service
metadata
Metadata-driven assembly of business services and service-oriented
business solutions:
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Enables publishing and managing service models, policies, and service
portfolios
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Works with WebSphere Integration Developer and tools such as IBM
Rational® Software Architect, providing architects, developers, and
system integrators with a common metadata life-cycle management
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Achieves rapid and secure assembly of disparate IT assets into business
services
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Supports both top-down business domain decomposition and bottom-up
analysis of underlying IT systems
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Creates and enforces design, run-time, and change-time policies
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Composes unique multichannel services that power multiple access modes
such as Web, business-to-business, IVR, and fax
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Delivers model and manage meta-information about business services
including WSDL-, WS-Policy- and BPEL-defined declarations, and actual
behavior of services
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Models policies as a basis for dynamic discovery, matching, and binding
of services based on content, context, and contract
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Simulates service behavior based on different usage scenarios
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Manages run-time meta-information for matching business service
requesters and service providers using policies
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Applies policies at various levels; for example, business ecosystem,
application, business service, or service end point
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Assembles policies in a unified, flexible, and extensible grammar to
express the capabilities, requirements, and characteristics of entities
within an SOA
Dynamic business service personalization and delivery:
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Highly optimized semantic mediation engine that enables metadata-driven
service discovery, matching, and interoperability during both design and
run time
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Business service policies to replace hard-coded service bindings in
enterprise service bus, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and
B2B connections with dynamic end-point selection based on content,
context, and contract of the service request
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Dynamic service behavior adaptation that is based on business context,
content, and contract.
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Policy-based customization across multiple domains, business processes,
and service end points
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Policy enforcement that is based on performance, reliability,
interoperability, security, and manageability of business services
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Dynamic business service and process customization without affecting
larger subscriber base
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Elimination and reduction of hard-coded binding changes with policy-based
process customization
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Reduced integration complexity through ontology-based classification and
data transformation rules
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Multiprotocol support for HTTP and JMS that can be extended to other
protocols
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Multimessage support for ACORD, ASC X12 EDI, and HL7
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Out-of-the-box support for SOAP, Java™ Messaging Service (JMS) topics,
remote method invocation, and MQ
Business service portfolio management:
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Controls and automates multi-entity and multidomain entitlement of
business services for service consumers
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Enables application administrators to create, control, and manage on
demand service packages to subscribers across the business ecosystem
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Designed for integration with identity management and LDAP systems, and
supports both self-service and assisted enrollment and cancellation of
business service portfolios
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Manages business service portfolios for subscribers
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Federates subscriber information from LDAP systems for user data
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Enables policy-driven relationships between subscribers and "real world"
artifacts such as existing applications, service declarations, and domain
models
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Collects and stores subscriber information and associate subscribers with
their chosen services
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Creates and manages hierarchical roles, business users, and domains and
assigns services to them
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Reliably creates and publishes portfolios of available business services
with standardized service packages and service performance levels
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Registers subscribers and manages subscriber profiles for business
services
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Enables both self-service and assisted enrollment models for management
of personalized business service portfolios
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Represents complex organizational hierarchies and captures metadata
related to subscribers and roles
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Validates changes made to subscribers, roles, and organizational
hierarchies
Real-time business service visibility and control:
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Business visibility and monitoring of business services for business
analysts and IT administrators
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Multiperspective views and drill-down analysis of events and exceptions
with respect to business context in a loosely coupled, service-oriented
business ecosystem
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Subscriber- and role-based drill-down performance visibility against
business goals and Business Service Level Agreements (BSLAs)
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Real-time business service support for billing and metering of
service-oriented business solutions at business service level
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Console for performance monitoring of business services customizable by
business need
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Domain, subscriber, and service-based performance and BSLA reporting
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Centralized business services content monitoring and alert notification
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Context-specific error handling across multiple messages and protocols
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Configurable audit trails on business service invocations for security,
SLA, and compliance monitoring
Comprehensive business service governance:
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Govern and manage the set of components, business policies, and business
processes that drive reuse of business services; define and enforce
business policies, controls proliferation of business and functional
services; provide service-oriented business solution visibility, and
manage the life cycle of business services
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Leverage components of WebSphere Business Services Fabric to govern
life-cycle changes, particularly for design-time promotion of business
services to run time and for recording business service performance and
changes
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Govern all aspects of business services: performance, reliability,
interoperability, security, and management
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Manage life-cycle changes to business services
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Control business metadata promotion between environments
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Validate extended metamodels to ensure accuracy and correctness before
publishing into run time
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Ensure metadata integrity while modeling business services in a
multi-authoring environment
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Define policies for metadata visibility in collaborative development
environments
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Notify users of changes
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Change management process for business service versioning, validation,
and performance management
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Include open APIs for integration with change management systems, such as
IBM Rational ClearCase®
Industry content packs to help speed time to market for industry
service-oriented business solutions:
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Industry packs, designed for specific industry participants, can
facilitate more rapid service-oriented business solution assembly.
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Optimized to product best practices, helping to ensure consistency and
reuse across global locations, product lines, and processes.
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Industry content packs for property and casualty insurers, and healthcare
insurers:
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Healthcare Payor Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
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Insurance P&C Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric
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Industry business glossary to simplify interoperability by defining the
common language to facilitate interoperability between disparate IT
assets. These prepackaged, industry-specific vocabularies are expressed
as an extensible ontology; for example, ACORD, subset of IAA Industry
Model, ASC X12 EDI, and HL7.
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Industry message sets to meet regulatory compliance and simplify
interoperability by standardizing the messages and transactions between
IT assets.
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Industry-common services speed time to market with prebuilt, frequently
reused horizontal infrastructure services. Includes interfaces to
popular industry-specific, third-party and business process outsourcing
services.
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Prebuilt business policy assertions speed time to market, ensure
consistency, and maintain standards compliance during the definition and
development of business service policies.
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Industry packs are extensible for use within an enterprise, or to enhance
security for publishing to a broader partner ecosystem.
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Industry packs enable clients and partners to plug in their SOA assets to
predefined reference business services templates.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
You can request a U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) at
IPLA and subscription and support considerations
IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within, but
not limited to an enterprise. You may aggregate the capacity for all the
processors the product is operated on to achieve a more economic price.
This will result in a single proof of entitlement (PoE). It is your
responsibility to manage the distribution of Value Units within the
limits of the entitlement of the product license.
Subscription and Support must cover the same capacity as the product
license entitlement. Subscription and Support will be available in the
country in which the agreement is made.
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In the coming months, IBM will update the Insurance P&C Pack and Healthcare Payor Pack. In
addition, IBM will introduce new industry content packs for the banking industry, supporting payment
standards, and the telecommunications industry, supporting operations standards. This expanded
industry coverage affirms IBM support and adds value for customers by continuing to introduce new,
and upgrade existing, industry content packs for the WebSphere Business Services Fabric. These
optional content packs can accelerate delivery of business solutions and help reduce implementation
cost by providing industry-specific SOA assets in the form of prebuilt templates and metadata based
on industry standards and prevalent industry practices.
All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal
without notice.
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Refer to
207-078
, dated April 17, 2007.
Refer to
207-075
, dated April 17, 2007.
Refer to
206-315
, dated December 5, 2006.
Refer to
207-106
, dated May 22, 2007.
Refer to
206-244
, dated October 10, 2006.
Refer to
206-230
, dated September 19, 2006.
Availability of national languages
IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2 provides basic enablement support and translations for
the following national languages:
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French
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Italian
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German
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Spanish
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Brazilian Portuguese
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Japanese
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Korean
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Simplified Chinese (GB18030 compliant)
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Traditional Chinese
Product description Language GA date
IBM Bus Svcs Foundation Pk Multilingual July 20, 2007
V6.0.2 (English
International,
French,
Korean,
Chinese
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese
Traditional,
Italian)
IBM Business Svcs Tool Pk Multilingual July 20, 2007
V6.0.2 (English
International,
French,
Korean,
Chinese --
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese
Traditional,
Italian)
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack English December 15, 2006
V6.0.0
IBM Insurance P&C Pack V6.0.0 English December 15, 2006
Trademarks
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AIX 5L is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other
countries or both.
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WebSphere, Rational, and ClearCase are registered trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
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Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries or both.
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Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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No publications are shipped with this product. Softcopy documentation is
shipped on the product CDs in the following formats:
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IBM Business Services Foundation Pack Installation Guide (pdf)
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Fabric Developer's Guide (pdf)
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Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA Integration Guide (pdf)
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IBM Business Services Foundation Pack User Guide
Tooling for WebSphere® Business Services Fabric is provided by the
WebSphere Business Services Tool Pack for Microsoft™ Windows™
platforms and available via Passport Advantage.
The following publications are provided with this tool pack:
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IBM Business Services Tool Pack Installation Guide
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IBM Business Services Tool Pack User Guide
All WebSphere Business Services Fabric publications are available at
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Any hardware that is explicitly compatible and fully capable of running the specified operating
system, all the corresponding supporting software, and any associated applications unmodified. The
responsibility to provide a statement of full compatibility between machines lies with the original
equipment provider (if not IBM).
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AIX®
: IBM System p™ servers
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Linux™
: x86 platform: 32-bit Intel® — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS/ES
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Linux
: IBM System p servers — SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 with SP3
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Windows
: x86-compatible
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Sun Solaris/SPARC
Software requirements
Server platforms
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AIX 5L™ V5.3
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Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
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Linux
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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SUSE 9 Linux Enterprise Server
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Sun Solaris 10
Client platforms
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Windows 2003
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Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Repository database
: DB2 Universal Database® (UDB) Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 and Fix Pack 10
Application server
: WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 with Fix Pack 1 (provided)
Other software (one of these):
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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6.0 or V6.0.2 (5724-N72)
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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS V6.0 or V6.0.2 (5655-R41)
Companion products
For information on WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS® V6.0.2, refer to
207-106
, dated May 22, 2007.
Planning information
Customer responsibilities:
Use of the industry content packs requires licenses to the following standards:
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IBM Insurance P&C Pack:
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Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD), includes P&C Messaging
Model
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Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) Industry Models, includes subsets of Business Object Model
and Interface Design Model (license required for full IAA/IFW models)
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IBM Healthcare Payor Pack:
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Health Level Seven (HL7), includes the Reference Information Model (RIM)
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Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12 EDI) includes electronic data interchange (EDI)
transaction sets specific to HIPAA
Software Maintenance is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport
Advantage Express. Installation and technical support is provided by the Software Maintenance
offering of the IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement. This fee service enhances your
productivity, with voice and electronic access into IBM support organizations.
Packaging:
IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2 is available via the following media packages:
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IBM Business Services Foundation Pack:
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IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V6.0.2 product CD
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IBM WebSphere Process Server V6.0.2 product CDs
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IBM Healthcare Payor Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Healthcare Payor Pack for
WebSphere Business Services Fabric product CD
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IBM Insurance P&C Pack for WebSphere Business Services Fabric: Insurance P&C Pack for WebSphere
Business Services Fabric product CD
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IBM Business Services Tool Pack:
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IBM Business Services Composition Studio V6.0.2 product CD
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IBM WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0.2 product CDs
Note:
Product documentation is included on the product CDs.
Security, auditability, and control
WebSphere Business Services Fabric uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware
and software.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
IBM Software Services for WebSphere:
(SSW) is adept at putting the right team together, whether it be with your personnel, with IBM
Global Services, or with the global systems integrator of your choice, to support the successful
deployment of WebSphere Business Services Fabric in the customer's environment. SSW brings product,
technology, and best practices expertise that can make any implementation team more effective. As
specialists in WebSphere products, SSW has the collective experience of hundreds of live
implementations and hundreds of consultants globally to help ensure their success.
SSW professionals complement the project delivery team by providing deep insight into product
technology and architecture as well as linkages back to the software development organization. SSW
services offerings are tailored to each client's needs. The services range from a full outsourced
deployment to focused specialist services packages that enable a project team or customer to address
specific challenges.
SSW can also assist you with upgrading from earlier versions of WebSphere products. Any migration
of applications involves proper planning, estimation, and timed execution. SSW can assist by
precisely assessing and evaluating your existing infrastructure and support system. SSW has
extensive, proven experience in successful product migrations.
SSW consultants:
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Have a mission of helping make WebSphere products successful.
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Minimize clients' migration risks. They have harnessed years of field experiences into a migration
services program to help clients successfully migrate.
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Provide deep technical skills on WebSphere and WebSphere Business Integration products.
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Bring "tried-and-true" best practices expertise to every engagement.
Packaged and custom service offerings are available, including specific predefined services
offerings to get you off to a running start with WebSphere Business Services Fabric.
SSW offers technical, product-specific services for WebSphere software products in each of these
four categories:
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Assess
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Technical architecture sizing and planning
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Enterprise process integration strategy
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Mentoring and team augmentation
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Design
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Design workshop
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Design review
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Mentoring and team augmentation
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Develop and deploy
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External code reviews
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Go-live support
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Off-site development
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Mentoring and team augmentation
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Performance tuning
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Quality assurance reviews
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Maintain
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Maintenance, enhancement, and operation support of the production environment go-live support
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Migration service
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Full operational review
Visit the following Web sites to learn more about SSW's capabilities. Contact your SSW Services
sales specialist for specific information about services offerings for WebSphere Business Services
Fabric.
For more information, visit
To find the name of your SSW Services sales specialist, visit
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Product information
Product
Licensed function title Product group category
IBM Foundation Pack for WebSphere Process Process
Business Services Fabric Integration Integration
Servers
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack for Process Process
WebSphere Business Services Fabric Integration Integration
Servers
IBM Insurance P&C Pack for Process Process
WebSphere Business Services Fabric Integration Integration
Servers
IBM Tool Pack for WebSphere Process Process
Business Services Fabric Integration Integration
Servers
Charge unit
Program name PID number description
IBM Foundation Pack 5724-R31 Value Unit
for WebSphere
Business Services
Fabric
IBM Healthcare Payor 5724-R31 Establishment
Pack for WebSphere
Business Services
Fabric
IBM Insurance P&C 5724-R31 Establishment
Pack for WebSphere
Business Services
Fabric
IBM Tool Pack for 5724-R31 Authorized User(s)
WebSphere Business
Services Fabric
IBM Tool Pack for 5724-R31 Authorized User(s)
WebSphere Business
Services Fabric
System z(TM)
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A Value Unit is a pricing charge metric for program license entitlements which is based upon
the quantity of a specific designated measurement used for a given program. Each program has a
designated measurement. The most commonly used designated measurement is a processor core.
However, for selected programs, there are other designated measurements such as users, client
devices, and messages. The number of Value Unit entitlements required for a program depends on how
the program is deployed in your environment and must be obtained from a Value Unit table. You must
obtain a PoE for the calculated number of Value Unit entitlements for your implementation. The
Value Unit entitlements are specific to a program and may not be exchanged, interchanged, or
aggregated with Value Unit entitlements of another program.
Processor (Value Unit):
A processor core is a functional unit within a computing device that interprets and executes
instructions. A processor core consists of at least an instruction control unit and one or more
arithmetic or logic unit. With multicore technology, each core is considered a processor. Not all
processor cores require the same number of Value Unit entitlements. To calculate the number of
Value Unit entitlements required, refer to the value unit table on the following Web site
With full capacity licensing, a PoE must be acquired for the appropriate
number of value units based on all activated processor cores available
for use on the server.
Authorized user:
An authorized user is one and only one individual (named or unnamed)
within or outside Your enterprise. A PoE must be obtained for each
individual user accessing the program in any manner. A program licensed
under an authorized user PoE may be installed on a single computer or
server, and accessed by multiple users, provided that a PoE has been
obtained for each individual user accessing the program either directly
or indirectly (via a multiplexing program, device, or application server)
through any means on behalf of the user.
The program may be installed on one or more computers, and accessed by
multiple users provided that a user authorization has been obtained for
each individual user.
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Users have unique specific identity and IDs cannot be shared.
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An ID may establish one or more connections and count as a single user.
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An ID may only be reassigned for the long-term replacement of personnel,
machine, program, or device.
Per establishment:
For each authorization you are permitted to deploy an unlimited
number of copies of the licensed business models only on machines owned
or leased by you that are located at a single physical site, including
the surrounding campus and satellite offices.
Passport Advantage program licenses
Part
Part description number
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Foundation Pack for WebSphere Business
Services Fabric
IBM Fnd Pk for WS Bus Svcs Fab D59S3LL
tradeup WPS Value Unit Li & SW Maint 12 Mo
IBM Foundation Pk for WS Bus E0345LL
Svcs Fabric Value Unit SW Maint Annual Rnwl
IBM Foundtion Pk for WS Bus Svcs D59S1LL
Fab Value Unit Li & SW Maint12 Months
IBM Foundtion Pk for WS Bus Svcs D59S2LL
Fab Value Unit SW Maint Reinstatement 12 M
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Tool Pack for WebSphere
Business Services Fabric
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs D59RYLL
Fab Authorized User(s) Li & SW Maint 12 M
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs E0344LL
Fab Authorized User(s) SW Maint Annual Rnwl
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs D59RZLL
Fab Authorized User(s) SW Maint Reinstate
IBM Tool Pk for WS Bus Svcs Fab D59S0LL
Auth User(s) Li & SW Maint 12 M from WID
IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack for
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Healthcare Payor Pk for WS D59S8LL
Bus Svcs Fbc Estab Li & SW Maint 12 M
IBM Healthcare Payor Pk for WS E0348LL
Bus Svcs Fbc Estab SW Maint Annual Rnwl
IBM Healthcare Payor Pk for WS D59S9LL
Bus Svcs Fbc Estab SW Maint Reinstate 12
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Insurance P&C Pack for
WebSphere Business Services Fabric
IBM Insurance P&C Pk for WS Bus E0349LL
Svcs Fabric Estab SW Maint Annual Rnwl
IBM Insurance P&C Pk for WS Bus D59SBLL
Svcs Fabric Estab SW Maint Reinste 12
IBM Insurance P&C Pk for WS Bus D59SALL
Svcs Fabric Establ Li & SW Maint 12 mo
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
IBM Bus Svcs Foundation Pk V6.0.2
IBM Business Services Foundation Pack Multilingual BA0NBML
(English International, French, Korean, Chinese
Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German,
Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Italian) Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ES, Windows XP, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES), Sun Solaris/SPARC, Windows Server 2003,
AIX 5L, V5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
IBM Business Svcs Tool Pk V6.0.2
IBM Business Services Tool Pack Multilingual (English BA0NCML
International, French, Korean, Chinese Simplified,
Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Japanese,
Chinese Traditional, Italian) Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES, Windows XP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES), Sun Solaris/SPARC, Windows Server 2003, AIX 5L,
V5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack V6.0.0
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack English Windows Server 2003, BA0M4EN
AIX 5L, V5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux family
IBM Insurance P&C Pack V6.0.0
IBM Insurance P&C Pack English Windows Server 2003, AIX BA0M5EN
5L, V5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux family
Passport Advantage customer: media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive
the corresponding media pack.
Entitled maintenance Part
offerings description Media packs description number
IBM Healthcare Payor Pack V6.0.0
HealthcarePayr Pk for WS IBM Healthcare Payor Pack BA0M4EN
Business Services Fbrc per
Estab
IBM Insurance P&C Pack V6.0.0
Insurance P&C Pk for WS IBM Insurance P&C Pack BA0M5EN
Business Services Fbrc per
Estab
IBM Bus Svcs Foundation Pk V6.0.2
WS Business Services IBM Business Services BA0NBML
Foundation Pack per Value Foundation Pack
Unit
IBM Business Svcs Tool Pk V6.0.2
WS Business Services Tool IBM Business Services Tool BA0NCML
Pack per Auth User Pack
WS Business Services Tool IBM Business Services Tool BA0NCML
Pack zSeries(R) per Auth Pack
User
Cross-Platform Product for Use on System z
Order the part numbers that follow when there is an intention to acquire this cross-platform product
for deployment on the zSeries or S/390® platform. This set of part numbers provides the identical
supply and authorization as the other set in this announcement. The distinction is to identify the
planned deployment platform.
Part
Program name/Description number
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs D59SKLL
Fab Auth User(s)System Z Li & SW Maint 12 M
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs E034ELL
Fab Auth User(s)System Z SW Maint Annual Rnwl
IBM Tool Pack for WS Bus Svcs D59SLLL
Fab Auth User(s)System Z SW Maint Reinstate
Withdrawal of previous Passport Advantage part numbers:
Effective August 22, 2007, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products licensed
under the IBM International Program License Agreement. A replacement product and availability date
is listed if one is available.
Withdrawn products Replacement products
Part Part Availability
number Product name number Product name date
5724-R31 IBM WebSphere
Business Services
Fabric V6.0.0
BA0M2EN IBM WS Bus Svcs BA0NBML IBM Business July 20, 2007
Foundtn Pk Windows Services Foundation
Server 2003,AIX 5L, Pack
V5,Red Hat Linux V6
BA0M3EN WS Bus Services BA0NCML IBM Business July 20, 2007
Tool Pack Windows Services Tool Pack
Server 2003,AIX 5L,
V5,Red Hat Linux
V6.
Orders for these part numbers will not be accepted after the stated effective date of withdrawal,
nor will normal marketing activities or educational support be available unless previous agreement
exists between the customer and IBM.
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The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only.
The terms and conditions that govern any transaction with IBM are contained in the applicable
contract documents such as the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA), IBM International
Passport Advantage Agreement and the IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance.
Licensing:
IPLA including the license information (LI) document and PoE govern your use of the program.
PoEs are required for all authorized use.
Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only
and do not include Software Maintenance.
This software license includes Software Maintenance, previously referred to as Software Subscription
and Technical Support.
LI form number
Program
Program name number Form number
IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric 5724-R31 L-DPAO-6YWMB3
The Program's LI is available for review on the IBM Software License Agreement Web site
Limited warranty applies:
Yes
Warranty:
IBM warrants that when the program is used in the specified
operating environment it will conform to its specifications. The
warranty applies only to the unmodified portion of the program. IBM does
not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation of the program or that
IBM will correct all program defects. You are responsible for the
results obtained from the use of the program.
IBM provides you with access to IBM databases containing information on
known program defects, defect corrections, restrictions, and bypasses at
no additional charge. Consult the IBM Software Support Guide for further
information at
IBM will maintain this information for at least one year after the
original licensee acquires the program (warranty period).
Program technical support:
Technical support of a program product will be available for a
minimum of three years from the general availability date, as long as
your Software Maintenance is in effect. This technical support allows
you to obtain assistance (via telephone or electronic means) from IBM for
product-specific, task-oriented questions regarding the installation and
operation of the program product. Software Maintenance also provides you
with access to updates, releases, and versions of the program. You will
be notified, via announcement letter, of discontinuance of support with
12 months' notice. If you require additional technical support from IBM,
including an extension of support beyond the discontinuance date, contact
your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner. This extension may be
available for a fee.
Money-back guarantee:
If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program and you are
the original licensee, return it within 30 days from the invoice date, to
the party (either IBM or its reseller) from whom you acquired it, for a
refund.
For programs acquired under the IBM International Passport Advantage
Agreement, this term applies only to your first acquisition of the
program.
Copy and use on home/portable computer:
No
Passport Advantage applies:
Yes, and through the Passport Advantage Web site at
This product is available only via Passport Advantage. It is not
available as shrinkwrap.
Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance:
The following agreement applies for maintenance and does not require
Customer signatures:
IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance (Z125-6011)
Yes
Software Maintenance is included with licenses purchased through Passport
Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Product upgrades and Technical
Support are provided by the Software Maintenance offering as described in
the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and
releases to entitled software and Technical Support provides voice and
electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Maintenance with each program license
acquired. The initial period of Software Maintenance can be extended by
the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
While your Software Maintenance is in effect, IBM provides you assistance
for your routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to)
questions, and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via
telephone and, if available, electronic access, to your IS technical
support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift
hours) of your IBM support center. (This assistance is not available to
your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. For additional details, consult your IBM Software Support
Guide at
Software Maintenance does not include assistance for the design and
development of applications, your use of programs in other than their
specified operating environment, or failures caused by products for which
IBM is not responsible under the applicable agreements.
For additional information about the International Passport Advantage
Agreement and the IBM International Passport Advantage Express Agreement,
visit the Passport Advantage Web site at
Volume orders (IVO):
No
iSeries™ Software Maintenance applies:
No
Educational allowance available:
Not applicable
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IBM has transformed its delivery of hardware and software support services to put you on the road to
higher systems availability. Electronic Services is a Web-enabled solution that provides an
exclusive, no-additional-charge enhancement to the service and support available on the IBM
eServer® platform. These services offer the opportunity for greater system availability due to
faster problem resolution and preemptive monitoring. Electronic Services comprises two separate but
complementary elements: IBM Electronic Services news page and IBM Electronic Service Agent™.
Electronic Services news page is a single Internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry
points traditionally used to access IBM Internet services and support. The news page enables you to
gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems.
The Electronic Service Agent is no-additional charge software that resides on your IBM eServer
system. It monitors events and transmits system inventory information to IBM on a periodic,
customer-defined timetable. The Electronic Service Agent tracks system inventory, hardware error
logs, and performance information. If the server is under a current IBM maintenance service
agreement or within the IBM warranty period, the Service Agent automatically reports hardware
problems to IBM. Early knowledge about potential problems enables IBM to provide proactive service
that may result in higher system availability and performance. In addition, information collected
through the Service Agent is made available to IBM service support representatives when they help
answer your questions or diagnose problems.
To learn how Electronic Services can work for you, visit
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Passport Advantage
For Passport Advantage information and charges, contact your IBM representative or authorized IBM
Business Partner. Additional information is also available at
Business Partner information
If you are an IBM Business Partner — Distributor for Workstation
Software acquiring products from IBM, you may link to Passport Advantage
Online for resellers where you can obtain Business Partner pricing
information. An IBM ID and password are required. Copy the Web address
below into the address field of your browser.
IBM Global Financing
IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers to assist them in
acquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware,
software, and services, both from IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for all
customer segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can vary by
country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit
IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the
United States, and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to
qualified commercial and government customers. Rates are based on a
customer's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type,
and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply.
Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal
without notice.
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To order, contact the Americas Call Centers or your local IBM
representative.
To identify your local IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU (426-4968).
Phone: 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255)
Fax: 800-2IBM-FAX (242-6329)
Internet: callserv@ca.ibm.com
Mail: IBM Americas Call Centers
Dept. Teleweb Customer Support, 9th floor
105 Moatfield Drive
North York, Ontario
Canada M3B 3R1
Reference: YE001
The Americas Call Centers, our national direct marketing organization,
can add your name to the mailing list for catalogs of IBM products.
Note:
Shipments will begin after the planned availability date.
Trademarks
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System p, AIX 5L, developerWorks, System z, iSeries, and Electronic
Service Agent are trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.
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Passport Advantage, Tivoli, WebSphere, AIX, DB2 Universal Database, z/OS,
Lotus, zSeries, S/390, eServer, and PartnerWorld are registered
trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United
States or other countries or both.
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Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
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Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other
countries or both.
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Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service
marks of others.
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