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6.1.2.4 SMF for Measured Usage License Charging

Measured usage license charging is an IBM software license
charging option.

Products register to be eligible for measured usage charging.
Once registered, software usage levels are captured in SMF
type 89 records.  An IBM-provided utility program (the IFAURP
Usage Report Program) summarizes, archives, and analyzes the
captured data to determine usage levels for specific IBM
software products.  The usage level determines the software
licensing rate.

z New Application License Charges (zNALC) provides reduced
pricing for the z/OS operating system that is installed on
LPARs where a Qualified Application is running such as Java
running under WebSphere, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Domino.
Software usage on LPARs designated as zNALC LPARS is also
captured in SMF type 89 records.

The SMF type 89 data is stored in the Measured Usage Global
(BATMUG) file.

For more information, see IBM documentation.

While SMF type 30 (Common Address Space Work) records also
contain usage data for registered products, IBM does not use
it to analyze product usage levels.  You can, however, use
this data (in the BATMUA file) to identify address space
level usage of products registered for measured usage license
charging.