Clark Morris wrote: >Check your licensing requirements. Normally there is only a short >period when you can run 2 versions without having to pay for both.
It's normally 12 months for IBM Monthly License Charge products. However, if you have IBM Country Multiplex Pricing there is no time limit, although there are still support expiration dates. (Yes, CMP is available even if you have one machine and even if you have machines in more than one country. In the latter case you might have two or more CMP contract agreements, but that's perfectly OK.) Moreover, even if you have a 12 month Single Version Charge limit, if you are taking advantage of sub-capacity licensing you should only be paying based on your peak utilization of each product individually. Simply check to make sure that's actually happening, particularly if you have Enterprise COBOL Version 4.x or prior. It's quite common during a version-to-version migration that runs longer than expected to need only "a little bit" of the previous version. Please make sure you understand and respect the requirements concerning discontinuation of a product or version license, especially the requirement to purge all copies. Finally, "ask your friendly IBM representative" if you have questions or concerns about any SVC limits. Particularly if IBM is materially holding back your version-to-version migration through no fault or lack of effort on your part, your friendly IBM representative might be able to help. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
