Product registration and enablement

This chapter has the following major sections:

Overview of product registration and enablement is intended for anyone who needs to understand the basics of product registration and enablement. This section introduces required concepts and terms.
IBM product enablement is intended for anyone, such as an asset manager, who needs general information about how to enable z/OS features. z/OS Planning for Installation contains specific details about enabling z/OS® features.
Product registration startup guidelines is intended for system programmers. This section describes how to collect and report information about registered products running under OS/390® or z/OS, for those who are already collecting SMF records and for those who are not.
Note: Step 3. Process type 89 records by the usage report program might be of interest to those individuals responsible for scheduling and maintaining the installation's SMF production jobs.

If you are interested in information about how to use registration services in product code, see: