Software Announcement September 13, 1999 Manage Your Software Budget with IBM Software Subscription for AIX Overview Highlights Include At a Glance • Software Subscription for AIX Agreement with no signature enables a single-site or worldwide required The Software Subscription for AIX enterprise customer to maintain • No minimum contract value includes: software version and release • currency. The offering, which • One-year contract Either one agreement for the includes base license, users, and entire enterprise under one • Automatic notification of program additional license upgrades, is a customer number or an upgrades one-year term agreement that helps agreement at the machine level you better manage your software • Automatic renewal and invoicing • Predictable budgeting for migration strategy at a known cost. upgrade maintenance • Ability to order multiple media You are billed annually with supply types with quantities on • Annual billing with automatic automatic renewal unless IBM is the same order renewal notified in writing. • Guidelines for IBM development For ordering, contact: With this subscription you can easily laboratories that release products Your IBM representative, an IBM acquire and manage selected AIX under this program Business Partner, or IBM Americas software upgrades and better Call Centers at • Clarification of area and customer manage your software budget. 800-IBM-CALL Reference: RE001 responsibilities Software Subscription for AIX EXTRA! EXTRA! . replaces the IBM Software Upgrade Key Prerequisites Protection Plan for AIX and UNIX Subscribe to IBM iSource, your electronic Original licensed program eligible for source for customized IBM information! Operating System Based Software Go to our Web site at (5692-ADV) for new and expired upgrade protection http://www.ibm.com/isource contracts. or send an e-mail to Planned Availability Date [email protected] with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body. September 17, 1999 This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 299-257 Payment Options: You pay for the plan: Description • At initial enrollment of the contract period Software Subscription for AIX is a one-year contract that • Annually thereafter enables you to maintain software product version and release currency for selected AIX- and UNIX-based Software Subscription Prices: The Software Subscription software products at a predetermined cost. You can for AIX price is based on the published price of the receive all software product version and release software program at the time of the contract preparation. upgrades announced during the contract period. You can also include in the plan contract coverage any number of Minimum Contract Value: None currently installed software product licenses covered by the offering. Notification of Upgrade Availability and Ordering: You can register to be notified by e-mail when products are Software Upgrade: An upgrade is either a new version upgraded. To register, visit: (2.x.x to 3.x.x) or a new release (x.1.x to x.2.x) of an IBM program announced as eligible for which you enrolled http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/support under Software Subscription for AIX. Software Choose TechSupport Online, then Subscriptions. Subscription for AIX entitles you to future upgrades from only the latest announced version or release of an When you are ready to take receipt of the upgrade, you available eligible product. can fill out an online shipment request form for your upgrade at: Upgrades do not include programs sold separately from the enrolled program, but enhance the performance of http://www6.software.ibm.com/swdelivery/ that program, or are considered add-ons or utilities. Programs that perform the same functions as the enrolled You can also call Software Delivery and Fulfillment (SDF) program but are installed on a non-AIX platform are not at 800-879-2755. considered upgrades. Upgrade Deliverables: Entitlement includes: Note: Software maintenance releases x.x.1 to x.x.2 (modification level changes, updates, or refreshes) are • Media supply based on the number of licenses released under 5692-SSO but only when a supply feature purchased has been announced. Supply features are only • Softcopy publications announced when there is a version/release change. Example: Product A is offered under 5692-SSO, and three • Hardcopy entitled publications months later PTFs are incorporated into the program package. This is considered an update that would not be The total number of combined media supply features can obtained under 5692-SSO. Using the same example be no greater than the quantity associated with the billing above, three months after the PTFs were incorporated feature for which you are eligible. into the program package, IBM announces a new version of product A. At that time, a supply feature is announced Adding New Licenses to an Existing Software for product A under 5692-SSO. This allows customers Subscription for AIX Contract: You can add new software who purchased 5692-SSO for product A to order the licenses to an existing contract; however, the full price is upgrade through 5692-SSO. charged. No proration is allowed. IBM may announce a product that can be substituted for Adding Previously Installed Licenses to an Existing an enrolled product. This product is neither a new Contract: You can add installed product licenses to a version, a new release, nor a maintenance release of that contract that were not initially covered by an existing enrolled product. In most cases, this product has a contract. These licenses are charged at the full contract different architecture, more function, and a higher license price as if they were enrolled initially in the contract.The charge than the enrolled product. IBM may provide those protection expires when the originally dated contract is customers enrolled in the Software Subscription for AIX not renewed. access to this product at a discounted rate. The terms of this transaction will be included in the new product Year 2000 announcement. This product does not have date dependencies and is Eligibility of Upgrades: Only unannounced software Year 2000 ready. product upgrades are eligible for coverage under Software Subscription for AIX. If the upgrade is announced before the effective contract date, you are not Euro Currency entitled to enroll the software upgrade. If the upgrade for an enrolled software product is announced during the This program is not impacted by euro currency. contract period, you are entitled to the upgrade even if the product does not become generally available until after the end of the contract. Product Positioning Contract Duration: The Software Subscription for AIX Refer to the original announcement letter for the contract is initially for one year. During that time, the individual licensed program offered under the Software contract cannot be canceled. After one year, the contract Subscription for AIX. can be canceled with 30 days written notice to IBM. When you cancel the contract, the 5692-SSO record in the Reference Information ordering system is marked inactive. Feature #2222 is added to your customer record and billing is discontinued. Refer to Software Withdrawal 999-267, dated September 13, 1999, Withdrawal of AIX Upgrade Protection Plan Features. 299-257 -2- Trademarks TXSeries, RS/6000, and SP are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. AIX, ESCON, VisualAge, and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. -3- 299-257 IBM US Announcement Supplemental Information September 13, 1999 When you are ready to take receipt of the upgrade, you Eligible Products List can fill out an online shipment request form for your upgrade at: Software updates are provided under the Software Subscription for AIX (5692-SSO) for the following http://www6.software.ibm.com/swdelivery/ programs. RS/6000 programs not on the following list can be ordered separately for a charge. You can also call Software Delivery and Fulfillment (SDF) at 800-879-2755. Program Existing contracts for Software Upgrade Protection Plan Program Name Number for AIX and UNIX Operating System Based Software (5692-ADV) will be honored as is, but will not be renewed, DFS Version 2.2 for AIX 5630-A43 extended, or modified. The following list includes all AIXLINK/X.25 Version 1.1 5696-926 upgrades available through 5692-ADV as of the TXSeries Version 4.2 for AIX 5697-D17 announcement of the replacement product 5692-SSO on AIX High Performance Parallel 5765-551 September 13, 1999. Upgrades announced after Interface Version 4.1 September 13, 1999, for which a customer is entitled ESCON Channel Connectivity Version 1.1 5765-603 through 5692-ADV should be ordered against the existing Block Multiplexer Channel Connectivity 5765-604 5692-ADV until that contract expires. Version 1.1 Performance Toolbox Version 2.2 5765-654 Eligible High Availability Geographic Clustering 5765-A25 Billing Media