The IBM requirement is a true up once a year, on your renewal anniversary.

However, TSM license are perpetual, which means they never expire, or never
stop working. The renewal process allows you to call support in the event
of an issue, and also allows you to download new versions and fixes.

If you are migrating from one machine to another, you do not have to buy
licenses to cover both machines. IBM allows you to exceed your license
count in this instance as you will eventually remove the old one after
migration. I think you have 3 months to migrate, but that number may be
wrong.

If you are using the old PVU license method, then obviously newer machines
generally have larger core counts, and thus incur a higher value.
If you are on the TB license model, then you can deploy as many clients as
you wish.

regards,

Mark





From:   "Huebner, Andy" <andy.huebner AT NOVARTIS DOT COM>
To:     ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
Date:   06/03/2014 06:26 AM
Subject:        Re: out of TSM compliance period question
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>



We true up once a quarter.

Andy Huebner


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lamb, Charles P.
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 12:05 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] out of TSM compliance period question

Hi...............

Does anyone know the time period a customer can be out of TSM EE / TSM TDP
for database compliance (i.e., is there a grace period)??  Does everyone
true up once a year or less??

BTW, We have a project that will be migrating from many IBM intel servers
to many blades