Price Changes in Monthly License Charges (MLC) for Selected Price Metrics on Selected IBM System z Software Programs

Announcement Letter Number PA15-166 (516-009) Europe Middle East and Africa Table of Contents

Announcement Letter No. PA15-166 (516-009) dated October 13, 2015 Price Changes in Monthly License Charges (MLC) for Selected Price Metrics on Selected IBM System z Software Programs Effective date: February 1, 2016

 Overview  Terms and Conditions  Announcement Countries

Announcement Letter No. PA15-166 (516-009) dated October 13, 2015 Price Changes in Monthly License Charges (MLC) for Selected Price Metrics on Selected IBM System z Software Programs

Overview

IBM® announces increases in monthly license charges (MLC) on select and select middleware software programs and their features. For the affected programs, the price changes will only apply to the following monthly license charge (MLC) software pricing metrics: FWLC, TWLC, PSLC, PSF Printer Block Tiers, Per System with VOQ and non variable charge. The price increase for a given program will be approximately 4% depending on the features selected.

In addition, IBM® announces an increase in the monthly license charges for IP Transform AFP2PCL V2.1 (5655P19), IP Transform AFP2PDF V2.1 (5655P20) and IP Transform AFP2PS V2.1 (5655P21) which will apply to all software billing metrics. This increase will align the price of these products with the price of their respective replacement products Print Transform AFPXPCL (5655TF2), Print Transform AFPXPDF (5655TF1) and Print Transform AFPXPS (5655TF3) and will reflect approximately a 13% to 25% increase depending on the type.

The timing of this announcement allows most clients to understand these changes before budgeting for the following year. Please note that in this instance IBM is giving more than the contractually required ninety days notice of an increase in charges.

Effective February 1, 2016 monthly charges will increase for the following programs:

Program Number Program Description 5648048 RMDS V2 5648078 VisualGen Host Services 5648092 IBM Application Server Version 4 5648099 DITTO/ESA FOR VM 5654009 ACF/SSP Version 4 VM 5654010 ACF/VTAM V4 5654029 DITTO/ESA for VM 5654030 VM/ESA V2 5654033 C FOR VM/ESA V3 5655002 IBM Application Support Facility 5655007 NetView V3 5655041 ACF/SSP Version 4 MVS 5655085 IMS COMPRESSION - EXTEND 5655103 DITTO/ESA for MVS 5655121 IBM C/C++ MVS/ESA V3 5655126 Netview MultiSystem Mgr Version 2 5655136 IMS Message Requeuer 5664307 Screen Definition Facility II 5664312 Print Services Access Facility 5665280 ACF/VTAM V2 5665327 Data Facility DS Serv DFDSS V2 5665356 GDDM/MVS Version 2 5665366 Screen Definition Facility II MVS 5665487 NetView FTP MVS 5668717 VS Pascal V1 Library 5668723 GDDM IMAGE VIEW UTILITY 5668767 VS Pascal Compiler and L 5668801 GDDM Interactive Map Def 5668805 VS Fortran Library V2 5668806 VS FORTRAN Comp/Lib/Debu 5668808 Appl Prototype Environment V2 5668812 GDDM-PGF Version 2 5668813 CSP/AD V3 EZ-Prep Feature 5668814 CSP/AE Version 3 5668896 Appl. Prototype Environment V1 5668899 APL2 Version 1 for VM and MVS 5668909 OS PL/I Comp, Lib and Test 5668910 OS PL/I Comp and Lib V2 5668911 OS PL/I Library Version 2 5668949 SMP/E 5668958 VS COBOL II Comp Lib and Debug 5668985 Host Command Facility V2 5668986 DSX DISTR SYS EXECUTIVE V2 5684007 GDDM/VMXA Version 2 5684026 BookManager Build VM Edition 5684028 NetView Access Services 5684043 ISPF Version 3 for VM/SP 5684062 Bookmanager Read 5684091 DisplayWrite/370 V2 5684096 IBM VM RSCS Networking V3 5684100 VM/PassThrough Facility V2 5684112 VM/ESA 5684113 Display Management System 5684123 ISPF/PDF Version 3 for VM 5684134 DFSORT/CMS Version 2 5684136 IBM SQL Master/VM Version 1 5684137 VM Batch Facility Version 2 5684168 GDDM/VM Version 3 5685016 NetView DM for MVS 5685025 TSO/E Version 2 5685093 IMS System Utilities /DB Tools V2 5685101 Display Write/370 V2 5685106 IBM OfficeVision/MVS 5685108 Netv File Trans Prog V2 5686065 ACF/VTAM V4 VM 5688015 Publishing Sys BookMaste 5688022 IBM VS COBOL II Library Only 5688023 COBOL II Compiler and Library 5688039 IBM C/370 Library Version 1 5688087 VS FORTRAN V2 Compiler/Library 5688103 SQL/DS V3 5688121 Teleprocessing Network Sim V 5688132 CSFI 5688137 Optimization Subroutine Library 5688187 IBM C/370 Compiler Version 2 5688188 IBM C/370 Library Version 2 5688190 PPFA/370 5688191 OGL/370 5688194 IBM SAA AD/Cycle CDE/370 5688197 IBM COBOL for MVS & VM 5688198 Language Environment/370 5688206 IBM SAA CSP/Runtime V2 5688216 IBM SAA AD/Cycle C/370 V1 5688218 IBM SAA CSP/370 AD 5688228 IBM APL2 Version 2 5688229 IBM APL2 Appl. Environment 5688235 SAA AD/Cycle PL/I MVS & VM 5695002 IBM AIform/CICS/MVS 5695010 IBM CICS VSAM Recov MVS/ESA 5695013 IBM Compiler for REXX/370 5695014 IBM Library for REXX/370 5695036 NetView Access Services V2 5695045 BookManager BUILD/MVS 5695046 Bookmanager READ/MVS 5695070 IBM Search manager./370 MVS 5695080 Item Access Facility Version 1 5695081 CICS Plex System Manager V1 5695101 Tivoli Performance Reporter for OS/390 5695171 Info/Management V6 for MVS 5695178 IBM AON/MVS 5696234 IBM High Level Assemblet MVS/VM/VSE. 5696703 IBM Data Refresher 5645DB2 DB2 UDB for OS/390 5647A01 OS/390 Version 2 5648A12 IBM RAMAC SnapShot V1 5654A17 z/VM Version 3 5654A22 C/C++ for z/VM 5654A23 Debug Tool for z/VM 5655A14 IMS/ESA BTS Version 2 5655A18 DI/MVS V2 5655A26 IODM V3.1 5655A27 IPFAF Version 3 5655A88 OnDemand for OS/390 5655B17 PSF VERSION 3.1.0 FOR OS/390 5655B85 C/C++ Productivity Tools 5655D45 BatchPipes(R) for OS/390 5655I57 Enterprise Developer Server 5655JAV Visual Age for Java OS/390 V2 5655M32 PSF V4 FOR Z/OS 5655N60 Transforms to AFP 5655P19 IP Transform AFP2PCL V2 5655P20 IP Transform AFP2PDF V2 5655P21 IP Transform AFP2PS V2 5655R29 Rational COBOL RT for zSeries 5655TF1 Print Transform AFPxPDF 5655TF2 Print Transform AFPxPCL 5655TF3 Print Transform AFPxPS 5685DB2 IBM DATABASE 2 (DB2) V3 5697F42 DB2 Server for VSE & VM, V7 5695DF1 DFSMS/MVS Version 1 5697B87 IMS/ESA Workload Router V2 5697F51 INFOPRINT SERVER TRANSFORMS 5734LM4 OS PL/I Resident Library 5734LM5 OS PL/I Transient Librar 5734PL1 OS PL/I Optimizing Compiler 5734PL3 OS PL/I Optimizing Compiler & Library 5735FAL IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for VM 5735XXA ACF/SSP System Support Program 5736LM4 DOS/VS PL/I Resident Library 5736LM5 PL/I Transient Library 5736PL3 PL/I Optimizing Compiler 5740CB1 COBOL Compiler/Library V1 5740LM1 COBOL Library V1 5740RG1 OS/VS RPG II Compiler V1 5740SM1 DFSORT Version 1 5740XXH RACF V1 5740XY4 Resource Measurement Facility V2 5746CB1 DOS/VS COBOL Compiler Library 5746RC5 BTAM-ES Extended Support 5746RG1 DOS/VS RPG II 5746XX1 DL/I DOS VS 5746XXT SDF/CICS Screen Definition Facility 5748FO3 Fortran VS Compiler & Library 5748RC1 VM/Pass-Through Facility 5748XE4 VM/370 Directory Maintenance 5748XX9 DCF Document Composition Facility 5748XXE DLF DOCUMENT LIBRARY FACILIT 5785GCL VTAM Protocol Conv. Application VPCA 5798DLL Data Base Edit Facility CMS 5798DWD Real Time Monitor

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Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions of existing contracts will determine the applicability and specific effect of the price change. Announcement Countries

All European, Middle Eastern and African Countries except Switzerland.

The data in this letter is subject to the disclaimer in Letter ZS90-0112, which is available from the same IBM announcement letters database.

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