Licensing of non-containerized Product Bundle programs

10.0.1 Available from 10.0.1 IBM Product Bundles deliver IBM enterprise software and open source components in open and secure solutions that are easily consumable and can run anywhere. BigFix Inventory collects information about the utilization of license metrics by non-containerized products that are installed as part of IBM Product Bundles.

Note: To clarify terminology around product bundles, the following changes are introduced:
  • The name of the Cloud Paks and FlexPoints report is changed to Product Bundles.
  • The name of the Cloud Pak or FlexPoint Bundle column is changed to Product Bundle.
  • The Bundle column is added to the Products&Metrics report to easily identify which products are bundles.

Conversion options

For each product that is a part of a Product Bundle, a separate conversion option is specified in the License Information document. For example, if you install IBM MQ Advanced as part of the Product Bundle for Integration, the conversion option is 2 VPCs /1 VPC. It means that when IBM MQ Advanced uses 200 VPCs, 100 VPCs contribute to the utilization of VPCs by the entire Product Bundle. For more information about conversion options, search the License Information documents.

Classifying non-containerized products as belonging to IBM Product Bundles

Classification of non-containerized products to IBM Product Bundles is a two-step process. First, you classify components that are discovered by BigFix Inventory to products with proper license metrics. Then, you assign products to IBM Product Bundles. For more information and detailed instructions, see: Assigning products to Product Bundles.

Reading metric utilization

Information about IBM Product Bundles

You can view information about IBM Product Bundles on the IBM Flex Points and IBM Product Bundles report. The report lists IBM Product Bundles based on the decisions that you make during software classification. The Metric Quantity column represents utilization of license metric units by non-containerized products that are assigned to the Product Bundle.
Fragment of the IBM Flex Points and IBM Product Bundles report

Information about non-containerized products that are a part of Product Bundles

To view the detailed report with non-containerized products that are assigned to the IBM Cloud Pak, go to the IBM Flex Points and IBM Product Bundles report, and click the name of the Product Bundle in the Product Name column. The detailed report provides the following information:
  • License metric that the product is assigned
  • Number of license metric units that the product uses
  • Date when utilization of the license metric by the product was the highest during the reporting period
  • Number of license metric units that the product contributes to the license metric utilization of the Product Bundle
Fragment of the IBM Flex Points and IBM Product Bundles report

Information about IBM Product Bundles in the audit snapshot

When you generate the audit snapshot, information about IBM Product Bundles is contained in the cloud_paks.csv file. The file contains the following information:
  • IBM Product Bundles and their license metric utilization
  • Products that are installed as part of IBM Product Bundles and the number of license metric units that they contribute to metric utilization of the IBM Product Bundle
Table 1. A fragment of the cloud_paks.csv file
Row No. Publisher Product Name Product Bundle Metric Metric Quantity Peak Date Bundle Metric Contribution Imported Part Numbers Recalculation Needed
1 IBM IBM Product Bundle for Integration None Virtual Processor Core 3 27-02-20 No
2 IBM IBM MQ IBM Product Bundle for Integration Virtual Processor Core 10 27-02-20 3 No

Example

The following scenario describes how utilization of license metrics is calculated for Product Bundles under different circumstances. The calculations are based on sample values and should be treated as examples.

Three products from Product Bundle for Multicloud Management are installed:
  • IBM Cloud Automation Manager
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Linux on System z
  • IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management Standard
The following table shows an example of how utilization of license metrics by non-containerized products is calculated by BigFix Inventory.
Table 2. Example of contribution of license metrics by non-containerized products to Product Bundle for Multicloud ManagementSummary for complex table
Product License metric License metric quantity Conversion option License metric quantity after conversion
IBM Cloud Automation Manager MVS 100 25 MVS/1 MVS 4
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Linux on System z MVS 100 8 MVS/1 MVS 12.5 rounded up to 13
IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management Standard MVS 50 2 MVS/1 MVS 25
Total 42