This section summarizes the series of steps that the user's installation must follow to participate in usage pricing. Customers should refer to the latest ULC Announcement Letter or MULC Announcement Letter and the IBM Customer Agreement Attachment, depending on their usage pricing option, for a full description of their responsibilities.

Although the following set of guidelines has been written for the IBM® products that are being usage priced, this set of guidelines should work equally well for any product owners (software vendors) choosing usage pricing for their products based on the usage measurement services described under the topic “IFAUSAGE– Collecting Usage Data” in z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF).

Installations already collecting SMF data can use the following steps to implement usage pricing:

1. Activate the usage measurement collection function.
2. Collect SMF type 89 subtype 1 records for the required measurement period.
3. Process type 89 subtype 1 records by the usage report program.
4. Provide IBM with a copy of the Software Usage Report.