I'm going to vent for a minute about the CPU licensing thing. IBM
doesn't make it easy to validate because a true CPU count is never
reported by the client.

Case in point, we have two 8 way Linux DB2 servers that we only backup
via the API. We have 16 CPU licenses just for those boxes because IBM
told us we had to have them. We added the licenses to TSM and still each
of those nodes only take 1 CPU license.


William Jean wrote:

Hi,

It's time to true up licenses with IBM again, does anyone have an automated 
process for gathering client CPU information that they would be willing to 
share?

Thanks,
Bill