IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory delivers new portlet development capabilities
IBM United States
Software Announcement 207-037
March 6, 2007
 ENUS207037.PDF (50KB)
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Key features in WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1 include:
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) entry point that helps make it easy to deliver SOA-based portal
applications
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New builders to easily integrate IBM Workplace Forms, Portal Content Repository, and Directory
Searching
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New enhancements that help developer productivity and success including support for refactoring and
simplified deployments
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Comprehensive Web 2.0 support including AJAX and REST technologies for drag & drop, inline editing,
and partial page refreshing
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative or IBM Americas Call Centers at
800-IBM-CALL
(Reference: YE001).
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IBM WebSphere® Portlet Factory V6.0.1 delivers new portlet development capabilities to further
help you achieve faster time-to-value, accelerated deployments, and greater employee productivity
from your IBM WebSphere Portal implementations.
What's new in WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1
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Helps developers quickly and easily create easy-to-use portal applications that include drag & drop,
in-line editing, and intelligent page refreshing
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Enables easy integration of a company's core assets including forms and content into high-value,
service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based portlets
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Automatically presents portlets created as stand-alone Web applications, Web services, or native
WebSphere and JSR 168 portlets, without requiring any coding or duplicating assets
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Simplifies the development, deployment, and change management process by eliminating the need to
code and manually deploy all of these implementations
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Refer to the
Hardware requirements
and
Software requirements
sections for details.
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March 12, 2007 (electronic software delivery)
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April 12, 2007 (media and documentation)
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WebSphere Portlet Factory is a dedicated portlet development environment for rapidly creating,
customizing, deploying, and maintaining portlets that leverage existing enterprise applications,
databases, and other IT assets. WebSphere Portlet Factory's ease-of-use and advanced development
features can help users dramatically streamline the entire portlet development process. This can
help developers deliver adaptive, robust portlets in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the
cost it requires today.
WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1 includes the following new features:
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Updated deployment capabilities to enable automated deployments to WebSphere Portal and seamless
support for IBM Rational® Application Developer 7
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Enhanced support for rich user interfaces including drag & drop, in-line editing, tooltips,
directory search, contextual menu, and intelligent page refreshing
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New builders that support both the Portal Content Repository and integration with IBM Workplace
Forms
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Additional samples, documentation, and tutorials to support developer success
WebSphere Portlet Factory is also natively integrated with WebSphere Portal providing support for
key APIs, such as request, response, and session. In addition, WebSphere Portlet Factory supports
the following features of WebSphere Portal:
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Templates
— Enable users to create and reuse composite applications by arranging portlets into templates
that can be deployed to different communities (for example, departments, teams, other groups of
users)
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Cooperative Portlets
— Easily incorporate portlet-to-portlet communication techniques such as click to action and
portlet wiring
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People awareness
— Seamlessly integrates collaboration into your portal, enabling users to send instant messages
and e-mail simply by clicking on a person's name
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Credential vault
— Easily leverages the WebSphere Portal Credential Vault or LTPA tokens to provide single sign-on
capabilities
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Automated deployments
— Automatically deploy and redeploy portlet war files to WebSphere Portal — without having to
touch ant scripts or XML deployment descriptors
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WebSphere Portal groups and user attributes
— Easily deploy portlets that can automatically adapt depending on the user
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WebSphere Portal modes
— Automatically generate fully functioning user interfaces for each of the portlet modes,
including view, edit, and configure
Additional benefits of WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1 include:
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Help accelerate portal deployment
— Help to increase developer productivity and reduce development costs
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Extend portlet creation to a broader development community
— Enable developers of all skill sets to build multi-page, complex portlets without coding
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Leverage existing enterprise applications and IT assets
— Quickly create composite, high-value portlets that leverage existing investment in current
applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Domino®) and databases
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Create new portlets on demand
— Generate multiple, customized portlets for various users or application contexts without
changing underlying code
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Empower business users to create, customize, and manage portlets
— Help remove IT bottleneck and reduce time to market by empowering business user configuration
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Automate frequently occurring development tasks
— Capture commonly used design patterns and company-specific business processes as reusable
components for all developers, enforcing application architecture and development best practices
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Easily comply to open standards
— Quickly build portlets without needing to know the specifics of the underlying standards such as
JSR-168 and technologies like AJAX
Accessibility by people with disabilities
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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Refer to
206-165
, dated July 11, 2006.
Availability of national languages
Product description Language GA date
WS Portlet Factory V6.0.1 Multilingual April 12, 2007
(French,
Korean,
Chinese —
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-
Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese —
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
Trademarks
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WebSphere, Rational, and Domino are registered trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States or 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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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT
professionals and managers are on the IBM training Web site
Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules,
and enrollments.
IBM Software Services for Lotus® Education provides education to
support many Lotus offerings. For a complete list of offerings visit the
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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 these products.
The IBM Publications Center
The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product
publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items.
Extensive search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are
via credit card (in the U.S.) or customer number for 20 countries. A
large number of publications are available online in various file
formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries.
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Hardware requirements
Recommended hardware configuration for WebSphere® Portlet Factory Designer
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CPU: Pentium® II 500 MHz (Pentium III 500 MHz, or higher recommended)
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Disc: 1 GB (plus space for development resources)
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Memory: 512 MB RAM (768 MB recommended)
Deployed portlets
There are no specific hardware requirements for deployed portlets. Portlets will run on all
configurations approved for the particular operating system and application server or portal server
used.
Software requirements
Supported software configurations for WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
Operating systems
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Microsoft™ Windows™ 2000 Server and Advanced Server
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Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
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IBM Rational® Application Developer V6 and V7
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IBM Rational Software Architect
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IBM Rational Web Developer
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Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2.x
Note:
Eclipse SDK versions only
Deployed applications
Operating systems
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
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Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise
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Sun Solaris 9 and 10 (latest patch level required)
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IBM AIX® V5.2 and V5.3
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IBM iSeries™ i5/OS™ V5R3 and V5R4 (on IBM eServer® iSeries hardware)
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Red Hat Linux™ 3.0 and 4.0
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SUSE Linux 9.x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (on zSeries® hardware)
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SUSE Linux Enterprise SLES for OS/390® 9, 2.6 Kernel (on zSeries hardware)
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z/OS® V1.6 and V1.7
Application servers
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WebSphere Application Server V6.0 and V6.1
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Apache Tomcat 5.5.x (development use only)
Portal servers
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WebSphere Portal V5.1, V6.0.0, and V6.0.1
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JSR 168 Portal servers
Note:
Support for JSR-168 specification only. IBM provides no explicit support for specific JSR-168
portal containers other than WebSphere Portal.
Web browsers
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
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Netscape Communicator 8.x
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Mozilla 1.7
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Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
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Apple Safari 2.0.3
JDK support
— Java™ 2 SDK, Standard Edition V1.4.1, V1.4.2, and V1.5
Enterprise integrations
Databases
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Oracle 10g
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Oracle 9i R2 V9.2.x
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IBM DB2® Enterprise Edition V8.x and V9.x
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MS SQL Server 2000 (with msbase.jar, mssqlserver.jar, msutil.jar)
IBM Lotus Domino®
— IBM Lotus Domino V6.0, V6.5, V7.0 (requires V6, or later NCSO.jar)
SAP solutions
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R3 V3.1h, or later (requires SAPCO.jar)
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SAP Business Warehouse
PeopleSoft systems
— PeopleSoft 8.x systems require PSJOA.jar. Any PeopleSoft 8.x, or later system that supports
access to Component Interfaces via this jar is supported.
Siebel systems
— Siebel 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 7.8 requires version appropriate JAR files: 7.5.x: SiebelJI.jar,
SiebelJI_Common.jar, SiebelJI_enu.jar 7.8: Siebel.jar, and SiebelJI_enu.jar.
Planning information
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:
WebSphere Portlet Factory will be distributed via a media package and electronic software
distribution (ESD).
WebSphere Portlet Factory media package is distributed in one package with the following:
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WebSphere Portlet Factory Product CDs
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Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
The LI form number for WebSphere Portlet Factory is L-JNEN-6XHPSH.
WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer will be distributed via a media package and electronic software
distribution (ESD).
WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer media package is distributed in one package with the following:
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WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer Product CDs
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Soft copy product documentation including README files are included on the product CDs
The LI form number for WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer is L-JNEN-6XHPSH.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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IBM Software Services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. You can
leverage the deep technical skills of our lab-based, software services team and the business
consulting, project management, and infrastructure expertise of our IBM Global Services team. Also,
we extend our IBM Software Services reach through IBM Business Partners to provide an unmatched
portfolio of capabilities. Together, we provide the global reach, intellectual capital, industry
insight, and technology leadership to support any critical business need.
IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) has extensive experience in helping organizations derive
quantifiable business value from their Lotus software investment. ISSL can evaluate your
environment and provide recommendations to help mitigate risks, speed deployment, and accelerate
returns by:
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Assisting customers in moving from tangible proof points to full scale deployments
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Integrating products into a customer's existing environment
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Creating and customizing products based on specific customer needs
For more information, visit the following ISSL Web site
To learn more about IBM Software Services or to contact a Software
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To locate an IBM Business Partner, visit
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Product information
Product
Licensed function title Product group category
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory WebSphere IBM WebSphere
Portal Portlet
Factory
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory WebSphere IBM WebSphere
Designer Portal Portlet
Factory
Designer
PID Charge unit
Program name number description
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 SubCapacity
Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 SubCapacity
Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 SubCapacity
Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 Processor Day
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Processor Day
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 SubCapacity
Value Unit
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Authorized
Designer User
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Authorized
Designer User
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 Authorized
Designer User
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O04 Authorized
Designer User
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quantity of a specific designated measurement used for a given program. Each program has a
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obtain a Proof of Entitlement (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.
Sub-capacity processor (Value Unit)
For programs eligible for sub-capacity licensing, a PoE must be acquired
for the appropriate number of value units based on all activated
processor cores available for use in each partition (utilizing eligible
partitioning technologies) where the program runs. Refer to the
"International Passport Advantage Agreement Attachment for sub-capacity
terms" or the program's license information to determine applicable
sub-capacity terms.
Authorized user
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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.
Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Part description Part number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value E02H7LL
Unit Annual SW Maint Rnwl
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value D57XYLL
Unit Lic+SW Maint 12 Mo
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value D57YNLL
Unit SW Maint Reinstate 12 Mo
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Part description Part number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Designer
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57SFLL
Authorized User License & SW
Maintenance 12
WS Portlet Factory Designer E02GDLL
Authorized User SW
Maintenance Annual Renew
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57SGLL
Authorized User SW
Maintenance Reinstatemen
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
Part description Part number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value E02H7LL
Unit Annual SW Maint Rnwl
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value D57XYLL
Unit Lic+SW Maint 12 Mo
WebSphere Portlet Factory Value D57YNLL
Unit SW Maint Reinstate 12 Mo
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
Part description Part number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Designer
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57SFLL
Authorized User License & SW
Maintenance 12
WS Portlet Factory Designer E02GDLL
Authorized User SW
Maintenance Annual Renew
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57SGLL
Authorized User SW
Maintenance Reinstatemen
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
5724-O04 IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
V6.0.1/WS Portlet Factory V6.0.1
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory,Portlet Factory Designer BS009ML
V6.0.1 Media Package
WS Portlet Factory V6.0.1
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory,Portlet Factory Designer BS009ML
V6.0.1 Media Package
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.
WS Portlet Factory V6.0.1
Entitled maintenance Part
offerings description Media packs description number
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Designer Authorizd Factory,Portlet Factory
Usr zSeries Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Designer Factory,Portlet Factory
Authorized User Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Value Unit Factory,Portlet Factory
Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Value Unit for Factory,Portlet Factory
zSeries Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory per Sub Capacity Factory,Portlet Factory
Value Unit Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory per SubCap Value Factory,Portlet Factory
Unit Lnx on z Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
5724-O04 IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer V6.0.1/WS Portlet Factory V6.0.1
Entitled maintenance Part
offerings description Media packs description number
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Designer Authorizd Factory,Portlet Factory
Usr zSeries Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Designer Factory,Portlet Factory
Authorized User Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Value Unit Factory,Portlet Factory
Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory Value Unit for Factory,Portlet Factory
zSeries Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory per Sub Capacity Factory,Portlet Factory
Value Unit Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
IBM WebSphere Portlet IBM WebSphere Portlet BS009ML
Factory per SubCap Value Factory,Portlet Factory
Unit Lnx on z Designer V6.0.1 Media
Package
Cross-platform product for use on zSeries
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.
Program name/description Part number
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57S7LL
Authorized User Lic & SW Maint
12 Linux on z
WS Portlet Factory Designer E02GALL
Authorized User SW Maint Annual
Renew Lin on z
WS Portlet Factory Designer D57S9LL
Authorized User SW Maint
Reinstate Linux on z
WebSphere Portlet Factory for E02H9LL
zSeries Value Unit Annual SW
Maint Rnwl
WebSphere Portlet Factory for D57ZVLL
zSeries Value Unit Lic+SW Maint
12 Mo
WebSphere Portlet Factory for D5800LL
zSeries Value Unit SW Maint
Reinstate 12 Mo
Sub-capacity
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Part description Part number
WS Portlet Factory SubCap E02Z2LL
ValueUnit for Linux on z Annual
SW Maint Rnwl
WS Portlet Factory SubCap D59FNLL
ValueUnit for Linux on z Lic+SW
Maint 12 Mo
WS Portlet Factory SubCap D59FQLL
ValueUnit for Linux on z SW
Maint Reinstate 12 Mo
WebSphere Portlet Factory E02YZLL
SubCapacity Value Unit Annual
SW Maint Rnwl
WebSphere Portlet Factory D59FELL
SubCapacity Value Unit Lic+SW
Maint 12 Mo
WebSphere Portlet Factory D59FHLL
SubCapacity Value Unit SW Maint
Reinstate 12 Mo
Sub-capacity for selected middleware products
Sub-capacity licensing on a per processor or per Value Unit basis is available for selected
middleware products. To offer sub-capacity licensing, IBM software products implement IBM Tivoli®
License Compliance Manager within their offerings so that you can monitor and report quarterly to
IBM on the use of the programs on a continuous basis.
More information can be found on the Passport Advantage Web site
Eligibility requirements for sub-capacity licensing
To be eligible for sub-capacity licensing terms on this product, you must
agree to install and configure IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM
Software, in accordance with the IBM Tivoli License Manager publications,
and to enable the collection of program use data on all eligible machines
subject to sub-capacity terms.
For those machines running programs with sub-capacity licensing terms,
you must use IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software to monitor
program use and submit to IBM an IBM Use Report each calendar quarter.
Multiple copies of IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software or IBM
Tivoli License Manager are not required. You can use more copies if you
need them to support your operational environment, but only one copy is
required to monitor all your sub-capacity licensed products.
Additionally, if this is the first product you have licensed under
sub-capacity terms, you must agree to the terms of an attachment to your
Passport Advantage or Passport Advantage Express contract and submit a
new Passport Advantage enrollment form. First-time sub-capacity clients
also have an opportunity to ensure a Primary Business Contact is
established for their contracts.
For more information on required and entitled license capacity, license
requirements and reporting, refer to
205-093
, dated April 19, 2005.
If you order (this product) under sub-capacity terms, IBM Tivoli License
Manager for IBM Software will be made available to you if you do not
already have one. You must install and configure this tool for your
sub-capacity products. Alternately, you can use Tivoli License Manager.
Once the license manager software is installed, you will be required to
register online (IBM may need to contact you in order to finalize the
registration process). You must monitor program use on a continuous
basis with an IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software and submit IBM
Use Reports to IBM on a calendar quarterly basis.
IBM Tivoli License Manager for IBM Software is documented in the
following customer publications, which are available from IBM
Publications Center at
Form
Publication number
Planning, Installation, and SC32-1431
Configuration
Administration SC32-1430
Problem Determination SC32-9102
Data Dictionary SC32-1432
Release Notes SC32-1429
For IBM Tivoli License Manager configuration guidance and instructions
for specific products (including this product) acquired with sub-capacity
terms, refer to
The Web site will give you information about how to set up the product
for detection by IBM Tivoli License Manager, any required maintenance,
and any required steps that are unique to this product.
On/Off Capacity on Demand
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
Part
Part description number
WS Portlet Factory Processor Day Per Use-DAY, D595YLL
On Off Capacity on demand Te
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IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer 5724-O04 L-JNEN-6XHPSH
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To be eligible for On/Off Capacity on Demand pricing, customers must be enabled for temporary
capacity on the corresponding hardware, and the required contract, Amendment for iSeries and
pSeries® Temporary Capacity On Demand — Software (Z125-6907), must be signed before use.
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IBM Global Services has transformed its delivery of hardware and software support services to put
you on the road to higher systems availability. IBM Electronic Services is a Web-enabled solution
that provides you with an exclusive, no-additional-charge enhancement to the service and support
available on the IBM eServer platform. These services provide the opportunity for greater system
availability due to faster problem resolution and preemptive monitoring. IBM Electronic Services is
comprised of two separate but complementary elements: IBM Electronic Services news page and IBM
Electronic Service Agent™.
IBM Electronic Services news page provides you with a single Internet entry point that replaces the
multiple entry points traditionally used by customers 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 IBM Electronic Service Agent is no-additional charge software that resides on your IBM eServer
system. It is designed to proactively monitor events and transmit system inventory information to
IBM on a periodic, customer-defined timetable. The IBM 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 will be made available to IBM service support
representatives when they are helping answer your questions or diagnosing problems.
To learn how IBM 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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i5/OS, iSeries, IBMLink, and Electronic Service Agent are trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other
countries or both.
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Lotus, Passport Advantage, WebSphere, Rational, AIX, eServer, zSeries,
OS/390, z/OS, DB2, Domino, S/390, Tivoli, pSeries, and PartnerWorld are
registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in
the United States or other countries or both.
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Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
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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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