New Terms and Conditions for S/390 Software Products
Software Announcement
September 29, 1998
Announcement Letter Number: 298-383
Table of Contents:
At a Glance
Changes to S/390 software products pricing provides:
- New usage pricing for low utilization applications
- Enhanced software cost competitiveness verses UNIX (R)
alternatives
- Simplified structure with less pricing models
- Extends PSLC Level C to most PSLC-priced IBM middleware and utility software products
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Overview
IBM is making a series of software pricing announcements that change the Terms & Conditions of your IBM Customer Agreement (ICA) or an equivalent IBM License Agreement. Today's announcements further improve the price competitiveness of IBM's S/390 (R) software offerings for you as you grow your S/390 workloads. These announcements also focus on providing a S/390 software pricing model that is easy to understand and implement.
S/390 Usage Pricing: Provides a cost effective sub-system environment (DB2 (R), IMS (TM), CICS (R), MQSeries (R) and utility products) for start-up or low utilization environments. This offering allows you to host stable and growing applications on the same S/390 server without impacting the charge for the usage-based products for the stable application. As the server size increases to handle the needs of the growing application portfolio, the costs associated with the stable application's usage-based products remain constant. Additional benefits are a consistent PSLC-like (MSU-based) structure and an aggressive entry point for application pilot environments. Refer to Software Announcement 298-357 dated September 29, 1998.
S/390 New Application Growth Environment: Provides an attractive new software price to customers dedicating a standalone S/390 processor to qualifying new applications, or to customers consolidating print and/or file server workloads in a S/390 environment. Refer to Software Announcement 298-371 dated September 29, 1998.
Parallel Sysplex (R) Level C Pricing Extension: Extends Parallel Sysplex License Charge's (PSLC) most aggressive pricing level (Level-C) to the most current versions of IBM's PSLC-priced middleware and utility products on qualifying sysplexes and standalone PSLC-eligible systems. This action provides a consistently aggressive pricing curve for large S/390-based organizations. Refer to Software Announcement 298-355 dated September 29, 1998.
Pricing Model Simplification: IBM is withdrawing some OS/390 (R)-based pricing models. Parallel Sysplex and Usage Pricing remain. Refer to Description for details.
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This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com
IBM is withdrawing the following OS/390-based pricing models. Parallel Sysplex and Usage Pricing remain.
Pricing Model Effective DateMeasured Usage License Charge January 1, 1999 (MULC) for MVS (TM) & OS/390 products
Refer to Withdrawal Announcement 998-273 dated September 29, 1998.
Pricing Model Effective DateOne-Time Charge (OTC) for OS/390, January 1, 1999 MVS, VM & VSE products Graduated One-Time Charge (GOTC) January 1, 1999 for OS/390, MVS, VM & VSE products
Refer to Withdrawal Announcement 998-294 dated September 29, 1998.
Pricing Model Effective DateMonthly License Charge (MLC) for January 1, 2000 MVS & OS/390 products Graduated Monthly License Charge January 1, 2000 (GMLC) for MVS & OS/390 products
Refer to Withdrawal Announcement 998-295 dated September 29, 1998.
Pricing Model Effective DateMultiple Operating System PR/SM (TM) January 1, 2000 (MOSP) for MVS & OS/390 products Indexed Monthly License Charge January 1, 2000 (IMLC) for MVS & OS/390 products Distributed System License Option January 1, 2000 (DSLO) for MVS & OS/390 products Primary License Charge (PLC) and January 1, 2000 Annual License Charge (ALC) for MVS & OS/390 products
How These Announcements Affect You
These announcements impact new orders only. If you are operating under a withdrawn license option, you may continue within your existing structure until such time as you upgrade to current versions, discontinue your license, or move to another option. If you have S/390 Usage Pricing qualified products that are currently licensed under MULC, you may choose to migrate to S/390 Usage Pricing at your next renewal if you are running OS/390 Version 2.
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