Managing your IBM z System licensing charges - What is Mobile Workload Pricing and its affect? (3 of 5)

Defining Mobile Workload Pricing

Mobile Workload Pricing was created by IBM in 2014 as mobile applications began to develop within organizations, with more transactions being mobile based, a break is given based on certain criteria.

•       Mobile Workload Reporting Tool(MWRT) was developed to provide the calculations

•        Based upon Rolling 4 Hour Average, then discounts applied

MWRT will calculate the 4-hour rolling average of the reported mobile transaction general purpose processor time consumed by the Mobile Workload Pricing Defining Programs and subtract 60% of those values from the traditional sub-capacity MSUs for all sub-capacity eligible programs running in the same LPAR(s) as the mobile workloads, on an hour-by-hour basis, per LPAR. The program values for the same hour are summed across all of the LPARs (and any z/OS guest systems running under z/VM®) in which the program runs to create an adjusted sub-capacity value for the program, for the given machine, for each hour. MWRT will determine the billable MSU peak for a given program on a machine using the adjusted MSU values.

On Monday I'll be talking about using reporting to manage your monthly license charges. In the meantime don't forget to sign up for my live webinar 'Top 5 z Systems Capacity Issues' on Sept 13  

https://www.metron-athene.com/services/webinars/capacity-management-webinars.html

Charles Johnson

Principal Consultant