Chapter 25. Software Terms - IBM eserver i5 Handbook

Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
Software terms
Chapter 25.
This section discusses software migration, upgrade paths, previous release
support, software maintenance, terms and conditions, and software upgrades.
Software on iSeries servers is priced in one of three ways:
Processor based by the grouping of processors into one of seven tiers
By the number of processors on which the software is running
By the number of users
Processor-based software is grouped into seven groups: P05, P10, P20, P30,
P40, P50, and P60. Each server is placed into a group based on its processor
and, for older models, its 5250 Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) feature.
Software pricing is then based on this group for that server. Each server in the
hardware section has a software group indicated.
Some Software products are chargeable by the number of processors on which
the software is running, rounded up to the nearest processor. If the number of
processors is increased, by Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) for example,
an additional charge becomes payable.
User-based pricing depends on the number of actual active users using that
software on a system. Keyed software where user pricing is required needs a
software key for the "base" license and for the allowed number of users. In some
cases, after purchasing a certain amount of licenses in a particular software
group, the user is then entitled to unlimited use of that software on that system.
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