Thanks Bob! If you are using sub-capacity WLC (in any flavor) then you can use the MSUs from the SCRT reports you are sending to IBM to calculate the invoice for the month just completed. For sites in the US my tool "LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis Software (LCS)" does calculate the resulting invoice to the penny for commercial and GSA (government) customers.
If you are in another geography IBM may supply you with the prices for the products you are using and those can be entered into LCS and then LCS can calculate these other invoices. Sites have done this in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and perhaps more. LCS fully understand aggregation of PricingPlexes and both MLC and IPLA products. We also provide XLS tools that can calculate the prices if you want to estimate future MSUs. As Kees pointed out the future is easier to understand if you are using capping. A site with good, mature, reliable capacity planning, is probably focused on the hardware. The Hardware MSUs may not be the same as the software MSUs, but that would provide an "upper bound" estimate of future software prices. Software MSUs is not necessarily the same as SCRT's calculated four hour rolling average either. -- Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on IBM Workload License Charges (WLC), LPARs and LCS Software Seminars on IBM Mainframe Software Pricing +1 414 332-3062 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
