The LCM tool is indeed free of charge but only looks at IBM products. There is 
"fee/cahrge" product for license management that looks at all vendor software.

The concept of sub-cap pricing is to allow the customer to pay for only those 
VM or LPARs software is running on (ie WAS, WebLogic, MQ, DataBases etc) rather 
than the entire physical host. The results can be a measureable reduction in 
software costs.

For any customer to take advantage of the pricing scheme, they must be able to 
validate the actual deployments of software.

LMT gathers installation information as well as the partioning/ virtualization 
and generates the Audit reports to demonstrate compliance. For this to work a 
SOFTWARE CATALOGUE and a VALUE UNIT TABLE (VIRTUALIZATION) are supplied by IBM 
for the LMT product (also no charge).

As one person indicated - you can spend the time each quarter to pull together 
the deployment information, run through the virtualization routines to provide 
a BEST GUESS for reporting to IBM and other vendors.  You also use a license 
compliance/ reporting tool instead to minimize the collection and reporting 
times.[/list]

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