IBM WebSphere MQ license information
What you can purchase with IBM® WebSphere® MQ and what each purchase entitles you to install.
Notice: This License Guide provides supplementary information to
assist you in deploying the Programs you licensed from IBM within your purchased entitlement. Your license
agreement (such as the IBM International Program
License Agreement (IPLA) or equivalent, and its transaction documents, including the License
Information for the IBM WebSphere MQ product offering) is the
sole and complete agreement between you and IBM
regarding use of the Program.
What you can purchase with IBM WebSphere MQ
Distributed platforms
For IBM WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms, the product offering
contains 11 chargeable components that can be independently purchased:
- 5724-H72 IBM IBM WebSphere MQ
- IBM IBM WebSphere MQ (Server)
What is my enterprise entitled to install?
For IBM WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms the
components below map directly to components that the IBM WebSphere MQ installer can install, so for these the mapping
between what you have purchased and what you can install is easy.
Important: The IBM WebSphere MQ install media contains all the components, but you
should only install the subset that you have purchased entitlement for.
- 5724-H72 IBM IBM WebSphere MQ
- IBM
WebSphere (Server) Includes:
- ClientDevelopment Kit (SDK)
- IBM Global Security Kit (UNIX)
- IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer
- Java .NET Messaging and Web Services
- Sample programs
- Server / Runtime
- UNIX Man Pages
What is IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced?
IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced has been introduced to simplify the process of purchasing entitlement. Your enterprise pays one price and obtains entitlement to multiple IBM WebSphere MQ components.
The IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced parts are:
- 5724-H72 IBM IBM WebSphere MQ
- IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced
For IBM
IBM WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms, purchasing 100
Processor Value Units (PVUs) of IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced gives
your enterprise entitlement to install:
- 100 PVUs of IBM IBM WebSphere MQ (Server), and
- 100 PVUs of IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security, and
- 100 PVUs of IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer Service, and
- Unlimited installs of IBM IBM WebSphere MQTelemetry
Additionally, your enterprise can mix and match IBM versions as required. Therefore, your 100 PVUs of IBM IBM WebSphere MQ (Server) entitlement could be split into 50 PVUs of the IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1 version and 50 PVUs of the IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5 version of this component.
IBM
IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced for Developers gives entitlement to
everything included with IBM
IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced plus IBM
IBM WebSphere MQ Managed File Transfer Managed Endpoint for development purposes
only.
Attention: The IBM license
defines what is considered as development purposes.
What are Idle Standby parts?
Idle Standby parts have been introduced to cater for high availability environments, where the
passive system has IBM WebSphere MQ installed and available,
but that system is not doing any IBM WebSphere MQ processing
work, or activity, other than staying up to date with the configuration and activity of the active
queue manager. In this case a lower charge might be applicable.
Notes:
- Use of the IBM WebSphere MQ multi-instance queue manager feature also requires Idle Standby entitlement.
- There is no Idle Standby part for the IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry component. The same IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry part needs to be purchased for the active and passive system, unless you have IBM IBM WebSphere MQ Advanced Idle Standby, in which case it is included.
- There is also no Idle Standby part for IBM WebSphere Managed File Transfer Managed Endpoint because the endpoint is not part of the server environment.