Timothy -- Thanks for the nice explanation.
Besides using SCRT the site also most be sub-capacity for IPLA. This is a separate agreement with IBM. If you take a snapshot today of your environment to determine if you should use Sub-Capacity IPLA the answer will likely be that you cannot save any money. If you are already properly "entitled", that is you have the proper number of value units for your IPLA products, then Sub-Capacity does not matter. And as your workload grows you still have the proper number of value units because you acquired them for the "whole machine". When it is important is before the *next* upgrade. If you go to sub-cap IPLA before the next upgrade you may have enough entitled value units to not acquire more with the upgrade. Do not expect your sales person to point this out to you! You may have excess value units, but you must still pay the S&S until your use grows into them. But with those excess value units you can use the IPLA products in additional LPARs or on additional machines. Your value units are the for enterprise, not a specific machines. This is true of any IPLA product not just the websphere family. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
