| With LPAR Capacity
and Software Usage Analysis (LCS) Software
you can tune your IBM MLC invoice similar to traditional performance tuning that Al has been helping clients with since 1988. Most licensees reduce their software charges month after month after month. The LPAR Capacity
and Software Usage Analysis (LCS) Software
is the only tool available to assist installations in planning for, implementing,
monitoring and leveraging IBM’s Workload License
Charges (WLC). LCS reads your SMF data and prepares interactive
reports that can help you decrease your IBM software charges
month after month. LCS is truly unique.
No other tool is available that combines information
about your licensed software products, analysis of utilization
data, and prices to provide near real-time estimates of
your software charges. LCS allows sites to "tune" their IBM monthly software invoices!
Large and small sites have licensed LCS throughout the US and the world (Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom).
"As stated in the Mainframe Charter, IBM is focused on
enhancing the value proposition of zSeries solutions. IBM believes
that its Workload License Charge ("WLC") software pricing
metric is an important proof point of our focus in this area. For
customers interested in understanding the potential benefits of
WLC, there is a third party tool from Al Sherkow's I/S Management
Strategies Ltd called the LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis
(LCS) Software. This software can enable customers to compare and
contrast the cost of certain software under various pricing methodologies."
-
IBM zSeries Executive, Terri Virnig
LCS has two components the Mainframe SMF Component and the Interactive
Reports Component. Both components provide “what-if”
capabilities that installations ask for when they are considering
and analyzing WLC.
- LCS allows you to vary hardware and software configurations
- LCS allows you to move LPARs from one machine to another
- LCS allows you to move software between LPARs or machines
- LCS allows you to study consolidating multiple machines onto
another machine
- LCS allows you to study the effects of using defined capacity,
including the change in software charges, and the impact
on your workloads
The Mainframe SMF Component processes your SMF data, including
additional data not used by IBM's Sub-Capacity Report Tool. The
reports are quite extensive and designed to give you daily and monthly
reporting of your environment and estimates of your IBM software
charges month-to-date. Some of these reports can be exported for
use with the Interactive Reports Component.
The LCS Planning Interactive Reports are really Excel templates.
As you change parameters and configurations the interactive Reports
update immediately. Interactive Reports are provided for Pricing
Analysis, Consolidation Analysis, Defined Capacity, and LPAR Configuration.
LCS's Value
The reports from LCS help you understand the how full-capacity
WLC and sub-capacity WLC charges compare to PSLC charges. LCS is
the only available tool that provides reports you can use to Audit
SCRT. LCS's planning Interactive Reports help you optimize your
use of WLC. With LCS you can understand the effect of changing the
defined capacity on your monthly charges and on your workloads.
The LCS User Guide includes a 10-step process to evaluate WLC full
capacity, WLC sub-capacity, monitoring WLC, Audit WLC, and optimize
WLC.
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