W dniu 03.11.2020 o 23:19, Attila Fogarasi pisze:
The product announcement letter gives the VUE value. I have never seen a
consolidated web page for all products/VUEs, you have to look at the
specific announcement letter applicable to your product. For example for
CICS TS 5.6 it is VUE007. Luckily its easy to find IBM
announcement letters
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 3:05 AM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
This is about IBM software licensing.
For OTC there are VUE - Value Unit Exhibits.
There some non-linear relationship between MSU and VUE number, but there
are several VUE's and the same machine have 300 VUE007, but 350 VUE008,
etc. (Number are examples only).
Now it time for the question: How to find out which VUEnnn is applicable
to given product? Is there any table or other webpage with such
information?
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
It seems you are right, unfortunately there is no such place with VUE to
product assignment.
However review of LPS or other documents describing VUE assigned to the
product is really troublesome.
BTW: THANK YOU ROGER FOR YOUR HELP!
Some remarks for record purposes:
1. Some Licensed Product Specifications are available as PDF (good),
some are available online (average) and some are available as hardcopy
only (bad!). The last one I read on IBM pages and I really could not
find the document having its publication ID.
2. VUE calculator is good for calculations, but will not help to know
which VUE is assigned to given product. This is obsolete tool, it does
not containt VUE040, which is probably newer than the tool. More, this
tool has no explanation of term and acronyms used in the VUEs.
3. There is some document (few pages) describing all VUEs I know. It can
be used instead of calculator, because the formulas are quite simple.
4. Reviewing LPSes and Announcement Letters is not something nice,
especially you have to pay attention to version of the product! For
example MFA product changed VUE metrics! It can be really misleading - 1
VUE for previous version meant 1 user, but for current version it is
"block of users" which means 500 users. Big difference.
5. VUE itself is loosely related to money. For example popular VUE007 is
assigned to CICS TS as well as small products like TACM. And of course
CICS is more expensive. However you can negotiate "price per unit" as
with gold or potatoes - and then there is a measure for upgrades, etc.
6. Why VUE, but not MSU or users, or terabytes? Simply to have
degressive prices per real unit. For example firs user is 1 VUE. Second
user is another 1 VUE, 10 users is 10 VUE, but 1000 users is 800 VUE.
Same for MSU.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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