A vendor could write SMF Type 89 records that record something other than MSUs. IBM actually does this with their Check Processing Control System (CPCS) and imaging software. Those products write Type 89 records that record the number of items processed. I have to run those Type 89 records through a special program near the end of the year and send reports to IBM to determine the charges for the products for the next year based on the number of items processed. The upshot is that any vendor could have its software write TYPE 89 records with any kind of costing metric recorded in them, and then have a program to process that and report on it.
Tom Kelman Enterprise Capacity Planner Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > Why? > SCRT is based on two records: > a) CPU utilization (SMF72 afaik) > b) products launched (SMF89) > > Record 72 reporting does not require any change - so ISV would know what > the 4HRA was on each LPAR. > There is still no report about LPARs where the product was used. > ISV has the following possibilities: > > 1. Simply trust customer and rely on customers declaration > 2. Change the product to write their own SMF89 (or rather add a section > to it). > 3. Change the product to create custom SMF record and create own > reporting tool. The tool may analyze SMF72 as well otherwise two reports > will be sent to ISV: SCRT for utilization information and ISV-SCRT for > product information. > 4. Tie the product to given LPAR name. This is what some vendors already > do. Not only CPC serial is checked, but also LPAR id or LPAR name. > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > -- > BRE Bank SA > ul. Senatorska 18 > 00-950 Warszawa > www.brebank.pl ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
