John,

Not to rain on your parade or anything but in talking to my IBM rep she
told me that the licensing strategy is indeed changing with the 5.4
release but not for the better in my opinion.  Now instead of basing it on
the number of CPU's that you have, it will now be based upon the type of
CPU you have.  Each CPU type will have a certain number of "value units"
assigned to it and you have to purchase the value units in something like
blocks of 10 so that you end up with enough to cover the type of CPU you
are using.  Sounds fun doesn't it?  Obviously their way of getting you for
have CPU's with multiple cores.

Justin T. Miller - G&B Solutions - Contract to DOI/NBC
(o) 303-969-5646
(c) 720-936-9708
Justin_T_Miller AT nbc DOT gov




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Mark,
                 We went through one of these about four months ago.  It
took us
weeks to get CPU counts of all the servers in a 1200 TSM client
environment with 13 TSM servers spread out over 4 states.  If all we had
to do was count how many clients of each type we had, it could have been
done in an hour, but NOOOOO, we had get various admins across the
enterprise to find out how many CPUs were in each one.  It was a huge
pain.  It was made worse by things like Intel servers with
hyper-threaded CPUs, that look like 4 CPUs to Windows, even though there
are really only 2 CPUs installed.
                 Now we have a process in place wherein every time we
define a
new TSM client we update a spreadsheet, a master licensing spreadsheet,
if you will.  We don't want to EVER have to go through the manual audit
again.
                 Is IBM listening, I hope?  IBM's licensing strategy
should be
greatly simplified, or based on something that the TSM client itself
could track and report.

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Sr. System Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health System
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO.  63127
Email:  schnjd AT stlo.mercy DOT net
Office: 314-364-3150, Cell:  314-486-2359


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Remeta, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:15 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Question for you


Has anyone else ever gotten a TSM License Review request from KPMG? I'm
wondering what my legal obligations are because they want me to fill out
a spreadsheet with all the nodes on our network which would be very time
consuming. Has anyone else gone through this recently?


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