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Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool

For Reporting on System z Software License Requirements

  
Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool New Function

Version/Date Description
8 Aug 2008
(Version 15.1.2)
  • Corrects Getting Started Subcapacity Pricing (GSSP) for the zNALC environment when an LPAR switches from Traditional to zNALC workloads during the reporting period.
  • Corrects Exclude processing whenever multiple CPCs are processed by the same execution of SCRT, even when only one of the CPCs is referenced on the Exclude statement.
  • Fixes an SCRT S0C4 ABEND when SCRT processes SCRT89 records from a machine with one or more inactive LPARs, where data from only 1 system image was processed.
12 May 2008
(Version 15.1.0)
  • Added two new sub-capacity MLC products to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V4 (5655-S71)
    2. WebSphere MQ for z/OS V7 (5655-R36)
  • Added five new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. DB2 V8 for z/OS Value Unit Edition (5697-N29)
    2. DB2 V9 for z/OS Value Unit Edition (5697-P12)
    3. Lotus Active Insight for z/OS V6 (5655-U15)
    4. WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS V6 (5655-S30)
    5. WebSphere Dashboard Framework for z/OS V6 (5655-U13)
  • Corrected the support for an existing product by changing the SCRT support from SMF89 support to NO89 support:
    1. Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V8 (5655-S16)
  • Added support for the new pricing option, IBM Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS IPLA software:
    1. New pricing algorithm
    2. Product footnotes
    3. Three new report sections
    4. New, optional GSTRACE DD
  • Added support for a new, optional Suppress_Report_Section control statement under the SPECIAL DD statement
  • Added support for UTC values to SCRT's Exclude control statement
  • Added the following fixes to SCRT (since V14.1.0):
    • Corrected LPAR group capacity logic when SMF type 89 records are not created on hour boundaries
    • Corrected group capacity assignment of NO89 LPARs when NO89 control statement references a CPC
    • Corrected group capacity for multiple CPCs that have LPAR groups and are processed by the same execution of SCRT
    • Corrected group capacity when z/OS switches between z/OS traditional and zNALC workloads
    • Corrected UTC processing that occurs at year end
    • Corrected the tracking of mixed z/OS - z/OS.e hours as z/OS hours
    • Corrected reporting for the count of hours excluded by the Exclude control statement
    • Base the (zNALC) suffix for the LPAR ID on the use of zNALC and not the LPAR name from the VMGUESTS DD control statement
    • Corrected group capacity whenever two or more native z/OS systems use different z/OS SYSIDs in the same LPAR
    • Report the correct percent data collected value for the z/OS hours prior to running zNALC in the same LPAR
    • Calculate correct times when z/OS systems are IPLed with dates in the future
    • Corrected UTC processing when SCRT executes on a z/VSE system
21 Mar 2008
(Version 14.2.10
(z/VSE Only)
  • Corrected an SCRT reporting problem which occurs whenever SCRT is run on a z/VSE system that has a UTC offset other than zero.

    This problem does not occur when SCRT is run on a z/OS system to create SCRT reports based on data collected from z/OS, z/TPF or z/VSE systems.
26 Feb 2008
(Version 14.2.9)
  • Added support for the IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) family of processors


  • Added three new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. WebSphere Business Srvs Fabric for z/OS V6 (5655-S30)
    2. DB2 V8 for z/OS Value Unit Edition (5697-N29)
    3. DB2 V9 for z/OS Value Unit Edition (5697-P12)


  • Corrected a problem where SCRT might ABEND or report an incorrect count of the number of hours excluded by an EXCLUDE statement.


  • Corrected a problem encountered when processing LPARs with different UTC offsets when the time period crossed a year boundary.


  • Corrected a problem with the assignment of Group Capacity Limits when SMF89 records were not created on the usual hour boundaries.


  • Corrected a problem with the assignment of Group Capacity Limits to NO89 products when a NO89 control statement referenced one or more CPCs and referenced specific LPARs (e.g. listed one or more LPARs instead of using "*ALL").


  • Corrected a problem with the assignment of Group Capacity Limits whenever a single execution of SCRT processed data for two or more CPCs, each of which had LPAR groups defined.


  • Corrected a problem with the assignment of Group Capacity Limits whenever two or more native z/OS systems belonging to the same group used different z/OS sysids in the same LPAR.
10 Oct 2007
(Version 14.2.0)
  • Added two new sub-capacity MLC products to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM Debug Tool for z/OS V8 (5655-S17)
    2. Lotus Domino for z/OS V8 (5655-S73)
  • Added six new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. File Manager for z/OS V8 (5655-S14)
    2. Fault Analyzer for z/OS V8 (5655-S15)
    3. Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V8 (5655-S16)
    4. SCLM Developer Toolkit V3 (5655-S72)
    5. File Export for z/OS V8 (5697-N62)
    6. Application Perf Analyzer for z/OS V8 (5697-N63)
  • Added support for z/OS with zNALC running as z/VM guest systems, which either run in an LPAR named ZNALxxxx or have been IPLED with LICENSE=ZNALC. The zNALC rules for "native" z/OS systems (non-guest systems) remains unchanged.
    Note: The LICENSE=ZNALC support requires z/OS APAR OA20314


  • Added support for SCRT to run natively on a z/VSE system so that customers who only have z/VSE can create their own SCRT reports.

    Note: If z/VSE and z/OS are on the same machine it is still required that the data from all of those systems must be processed by a single execution of SCRT running on a z/OS system so that all of those systems appear on the same SCRT report. If z/VSE customers have a separate z/OS machine, they may still choose to use that z/OS system to create the SCRT reports for the data collected from the z/VSE system.


  • Added support for the new SCRT SPECIAL DD statement and new SCRT Exclude control statement that direct SCRT to exclude specified SMF and SCRT89 records from SCRT processing.


  • Corrected a reporting problem when multiple z/OS 1.6 (or earlier) guest systems run in the same LPAR


  • Corrected a reporting problem when z/OS.e and z/OS are running on the same CPC


  • Corrected an S0C4 Abend when multiple z/OS guest systems, with APAR OA20314 applied, run in the same LPAR


  • Corrected a reporting problem when a z/OS zNALC LPAR reported 0 MSUs for the month


  • Corrected a reporting problem when an LPAR Group was defined with a group capacity of 0 MSUs
10 Jul 2007
(Version 14.1.0)
  • Added three new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V6 (5655-R17)
    2. zSecure Alert V1 (5655-T11)
    3. zSecure CICS Toolkit V1 (5655-T05)
  • Added support to treat z/OS systems IPLed with LICENSE=ZNALC as zNALC LPARs
    Note: This support requires z/OS APAR OA20314


  • Corrected a problem where on rare occasions the MSUs reported for z/OS would be lower than the MSUs reported for a NO89 product


  • Corrected a problem where NO89 products might report during times when the supporting Operating System was not running in that LPAR


  • SCRT will now correctly format the report when there are more than 24 LPARs from the same CPC


  • SCRT will now correctly attribute capping to LPAR capping or Group capping as appropriate


  • SCRT will now correctly format the Detail Data Collection section when a truncated SCRT report is generated


  • SCRT will now correctly issue Footnote 3 in the Group Capacity LPARs section
10 Apr 2007
(Version 13.1)
  • Added one new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. IMS V10 (5635-A01)
  • Changed one existing execution-based sub-capacity IPLA product from NO89 status to SMF89 status:
    1. WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6 (5655-P28)
  • Added six new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer V5 (5655-R10)
    2. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS V6 (5655-R41)
    3. WebSphere Transformation Extender for z/OS V8 (5655-R95)
    4. WebSphere Extended Deployment Individual Comps for z/OS V6 (5655-S33)
    5. SCLM Developer Toolkit V2 (5655-R37)
    6. SCLM Admin Toolkit V3 (5697-N51)
  • Added support for Midrange Workload License Charge (MWLC) products, i.e. z/VSE V4 products.


  • Added 13 new z/VSE sub-capacity Monthly License Charge products to the SCRT product list:
    1. VSE Central Functions V8 (5686-CF8)
    2. CICS TS for VSE/ESA (5648-054)
    3. DITTO/ESA for VSE (5648-099)
    4. IBM C for VSE/ESA V1 (5686-A01)
    5. TCP/IP for VSE (5686-A04)
    6. MQSeries VSE/ESA (5686-A06)
    7. ACF/VTAM V4 VSE/ESA (5686-065)
    8. IBM COBOL VSE/ESA (5686-068)
    9. IBM PL/1 for VSE/ESA (5686-069)
    10. High Level Assembler VSE (5696-234)
    11. DB2 Server for VSE (5697-F42)
    12. IBM DFSort/VSE V3 (5746-SM3)
    13. DL/1 DOS/VS (5746-XX1)
  • Added support for System z New Application License Charges (zNALC).


  • Added support for group capacity limits (soft capping across multiple LPARs).


  • Made a significant number of changes to the format of the SCRT report (changes are summarized in the "Summary of Changes for SCRT V13.1.0" section of the SCRT V13.1.0 Users Guide).


  • Corrected the calculation of product MSUs for pre-z/OS V1R7 systems which use the z/OS zIIP SPE and runs on LPARs with dedicated engines.


  • Corrected error message SCRTTOOL044 by providing the product ID instead of the product name.


  • Enhanced SCRT to process RMF records which report less than one MSU from z/OS systems with APAR OW55509 installed.
10 Oct 2006
(Version 12.2)
  • Added one new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM Debug Tool for z/OS V7 (5655-R44)
  • Added six new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6 (5655-N53)
    2. WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for z/OS V6 (5655-R15)
    3. Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V7 (5655-R45)
    4. Fault Analyzer for z/OS V7 (5655-R46)
    5. File Manager for z/OS V7 (5655-R47)
    6. Application Perf Analyzer for z/OS V7 (5697-N53)

  • Corrected a problem where on rare occasions the MSUs reported for z/OS would be lower than the MSUs reported for a middleware product.


  • Corrected a problem with the Start and End times listed in the Detail Data Collection section of the SCRT report. Note that the values in the other sections of the report were not incorrect and are not affected by this change.


  • Added support for a new z/TPF message if internal data table corruption occurs.
12 June 2006
(Version 12.1)
  • changed SCRT JCL program PARMS to be Keyword parameters instead of Positional parameters. Customers with tailored JCL from previous versions of SCRT must be sure to make the appropriate changes.

  • added one new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. DB2 V9 (5635-DB2)
  • added five new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM Migration Utility for z/OS V3 (5697-N44)
    2. SCLM Admin Toolkit V2 (5697-J19)
    3. WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6 (5655-P28)
    4. Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Messaging V6 (5698-A87)
    5. Automated Tape Alloc Manager (5697-H62)
  • corrected SCRT support for Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V6 (5655-P15) as a NO89 product.


  • added support for IBM System z9 Business Class processors


  • added strategic support for SCRT89 records produced by z/TPF V1.1 (5748-T15) PUT 2


  • changed "XXXX" fields in SCRT Report to be "ZZZZ" to avoid firewall and spam filter problems


  • revised the legal disclaimer at the end of the SCRT Report
17 Nov 2005
(Version 11.3)
  • resolved problem where MSUs were reported incorrectly for LPARs with PR/SM hardcaps
10 Nov 2005
(Version 11.2)
  • added one new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. IBM Debug Tool for z/OS V6 (5655-P14)

  • added ten new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V6 (5655-P15)
    2. Fault Analyzer for z/OS V6 (5655-P16)
    3. File Manager for z/OS V6 (5655-P17)
    4. WebSphere Event Broker for z/OS V6 (5655-M75)
    5. WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS V6 (5655-M74)
    6. WebSphere Message Broker with R&F for z/OS V6 (5697-J09)
    7. Tivoli Composite Application Manager for CICS V6 (5698-A69)
    8. Tivoli Composite Application Manager for IMS V6 (5698-A70)
    9. Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere V6 (5698-A71)
    10. IBM Tivoli System Automation for OS/390 V3 (5698-SA3)

  • corrected SCRT support for IBM System z9 109 machines to show proper MSU rating at the top of the SCRT report

  • corrected SCRT S0C4 abend whenever valid SMF data is not provided

  • calculate a rolling 4 hour average value when a test LPAR reports less than 4 hours of SMF data

  • updated the SCRT User Guide to clarify the Report Period % Data in the Detail Data Collection section of the SCRT report
12 Sept 2005
(Version 11.1)
  • added four new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge products to SCRT product list:
    1. z/TPF V1 (5748-T15)
    2. z/TPFDF V1 (5748-F15)
    3. Lotus Domino for z/OS V7 (5655-N14)
    4. Encryption Facility for z/OS V1 (5655-P97)

  • added three new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. SCLM Developer Toolkit V1 (5655-M99)
    2. Application Perf Analyzer for z/OS V1 (5697-N37)
    3. WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation for z/OS V5 (5655-L85) is now supported via SMF89 records and a NO89 control card is no longer necessary

  • support for IBM System z9 109

  • support of z/OS V1.7 ability to report rolling 4-hour averages for z/OS V1.7 guests of z/VM when all z/OS instances are at the V1.7 level or higher

  • support customer testing environments with SMF data having dates in the future or past, which are the result of using the sysplex timer offset field on the LPAR configuration panel
10 June 2005
(Version 10.3)
  • added one new sub-capacity Monthly License Charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. MQSeries for z/OS V6 (5655-L82)

  • added three new execution-based sub-capacity IPLA products to SCRT product list:
    1. WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V6 (5655-N01)
    2. WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V5 (5655-M44)
    3. WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer V4 (5655-M22)

  • enhance usability by providing a summary of JCL changes required by each release as a block of comments in the JCL

  • accurately display end dates for which SCRT has received SMF data for each LPAR on each machine

  • correct documentation so that the customer section of the report contains LPAR names for VM guest LPARs consistent with the names for native LPARs
16 Feb 2005
(Version 10.2)
  • corrected SCRT to enable output to be targeted for GDGs that are in Partition Data Set (PDS) format
10 Feb 2005
(Version 10.1)
  • added two new sub-capacity monthly license charge product to SCRT product list:
    1. CICS TS for z/OS V3 (5655-M15)
    2. IBM Debug Tool for z/OS V5 (5655-M18)

  • added seven new sub-capacity IPLA product to SCRT product list:
    1. Debug Tool Utilities and Adv Functions for z/OS V5 (5655-M19)
    2. Fault Analyzer for z/OS V5 (5655-M20)
    3. File Manager for z/OS V5 (5655-M21)
    4. File Export for z/OS (5607-I12)
    5. IMS Data Collector for WebSphere Studio Appl Monitor V3 (5697-J01)
    6. CICS Data Collector for WebSphere Studio Appl Monitor V3 (5697-J17)
    7. WebSphere Studio Application Monitor for z/OS V3 (5697-J18)

  • display both SYSID and LPAR name for a given LPAR

  • indicate when defined capacity affects billable MSU values

  • add robustness for 'DETAIL LPAR DATA COLLECTION' section, indicating active but non-reporting LPARs

  • change selection of reporting period, now reporting period is based upon majority of SMF data in input stream (rather than midpoint of data in input stream)

  • ability to generate one .csv file, rather than separate .csv files for each machine (for use with the SCRT Web Interface)
10 Sept 2004
(Version 9.1)
  • added support for Sub-Capacity zSeries IPLA, announced 10 August 2004

  • created a new section called 'detailed data collection' which provides data start date, data end date and % data collected for each LPAR. This section is for informational purposes only and will not affect billing
10 May 2004
(Version 8.1)
  • added support for processing SMF data from z890 (Machine Type 2086)

  • changed SCRT to ignore deactivated LPARs that are listed in the NO89 DD Statement, SCRT no longer produces an error/warning message
10 Dec 2003
(Version 7.1)
  • added one new sub-capacity monthly license charge product to SCRT product list:
    ALCS V2 (5695-068)

  • added one new sub-capacity IPLA product to SCRT product list:
    WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer V3 (5655-L21)

  • added one decimal places to the product Grid Snapshot section of the Sub-Capacity Report to improve accuracy
10 Oct 2003
(Version 6.1)
  • added support for Entry Workload License Charges (EWLC), which offers sub-capacity pricing for z800 customers

  • added support for Sub-Capacity Charging for select WebSphere products on z/OS, which replaced the Entry Option offering. A complete listing of the select WebSphere products is listed on the web.

  • added four new sub-capacity monthly license charge products to SCRT product list:
    DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 (5625-DB2)
    IMS V9 (5655-J38)
    IBM Debug Tool for z/OS V4 (5655-L24)
    z/OS.e (5655-G52) - - EWLC allows sub-capacity pricing for z/OS.e

  • added support for spanned SMF70 records, which may be generated in certain z990 configurations

  • updated the z990 software pricing MSU values to reflect the new, reduced MSU values. Please note that z/OS Workload Manager will contine to measure rolling 4-hour average according to the old software pricing MSU values until a z990 microcode patch is applied. See the SCRT Support page on the web for more information on the microcode patch.

  • customer number is now a required SCRT parameter
23 May 2003
(Version 5.1)
  • added support for processing SMF data from z990 (Machine Type 2084)

  • added 8 new IPLA products to the SCRT product list (to support IBM's Entry Option): - WebSphere Application Server V4 for z/OS and OS/390 (5655-F31)
    - WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V5 (5655-I35)
    - WebSphere Portal for z/OS and OS/390 V4 (5655-K12)
    - WebSphere Host Publisher for z/OS and OS/390 V4 (5655-I03)
    - WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker for z/OS V2 (5655-I58)
    - WebSphere MQ Integrator for z/OS V2 (5655-G97)
    - WebSphere MQ Workflow for z/OS V3 (5655-BPM)
    - WebSphere Data Interchange for z/OS V3 (5655-I40)

  • added a new Variable WLC products to SCRT product list: Lotus Domino for z/OS V6 (5655-K36)

  • changed "Product Information" section of the Sub-Capacity report to display only active (executing) products

  • improved "Max Contributors" section of the Sub-Capacity report to display products indicated as 'NO89' parameters

  • improved error reporting to help customers identify missing SMF records
06 Nov 2002
(Version 4.2)
  • enhanced SCRT to handle (discard) SMF record duplicates (caused by events such as Daylight Saving Time)

  • resolved problem where LPARs with PR/SM hardcaps were incorrectly reported by SCRT with a utilization of zero (0) MSUs
18 Oct 2002
(Version 4.1)
  • enhanced support for products that do not create SMF type 89 records. SCRT now calculates the highest concurrent utilization based on a customer-supplied mapping of these products to the LPARs they run in (new customer inputs required in JCL)

  • added functionality to process data from a machine where different LPARs are set to different time zones

  • improved Detail Data Sections of Sub-Capacity Report, including:
    1. displaying information only regarding active (executing) products
    2. transforming the "Product Summary Drill Down" section into a new section called "Product Max Contributors" that better explains which LPAR(s) contribute to forming peak utilization(s)
    3. enhancing the "Product Grid Snapshot" section to give a view across all hours in the month, rather than the first/last 24 hours.
02 Aug 2002
(Version 3.2)
  • corrected SCRT to recognize that Query Management Facility V3 (5706-254) does not have SMF89 records

  • based measurement of z/VM LPARs, LPARs with dedicated CPs and LPARs with PR/SM Hardcaps on the number of engines available to the partition.
14 June 2002
(Version 3.1)
  • added support for WLC changes, shift from LPAR defined capacity model to LPAR utilization model

  • enhanced Detail LPAR Data Section on Sub-Capacity Report, to help support new utilization-oriented WLC model
01 April 2002
(Version 2.2)
  • refreshed code for environments having VM with z/OS guests
    Note: VM environments, please see the updated SCRT User Guide for Instructions
15 Mar 2002
(Version 2.1)
  • added support for processing SMF data from z800 (Machine Type 2066)

  • enabled data from multiple machines to be processed in a single SCRT run by changing the output dataset to a PDS with one member per machine
    Note: SCRT continues to generate one report per machine, which must be submitted to IBM

  • parameterized repeated customer values (customer number, submitter's name, submitter's e-mail, submitter's phone number, purchase order number)

  • eliminated need to manually update Sub-Capacity Report, for environments with z/OS guests of VM
    Note: IBM is completing the final validation for the VM enhancement; new findings may necessitate we provide an SCRT refresh for environments having VM with z/OS guests.

  • added one new Variable WLC products to SCRT product list: Tivoli Netview for z/OS (5697-ENV)

  • added one non-Variable WLC product, z/OS.e, for informational purposes only
07 Dec 2001
  • resolved problem causing 0C2 abends; problem stemmed from SMF data in input stream generated after 30 Nov 2001

  • resolved problem causing SCRT to incorrectly detect OS/390; problem stemmed from z900 machines with dual serial numbers

  • added three new Variable WLC products to SCRT product list:
    Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS (5697-WSZ)
    IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 (5655-G53)
    IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS and OS/390 (5655-H31)
26 Oct 2001
  • machine serial number, an existing calculated field on the SCReport, is updated to provide additional accuracy

  • customer number is a new optional parameter
    (supplying your customer number will facilitate IBM billing procedures)

  • customer number is a new field on the SCReport which contains the value provided in the parameter, above

  • "reporting period" is a new calculated field on the SCReport; this field indicates the reporting period covered by the generated report (given the range of dates found in the input data set(s), the SCRT determines the most likely month being described)

  • "% data collected", an existing calculated field on the SCReport, is updated to improve the accuracy of the calculation (new calculation = number of actual hours reported/number of hours in "reporting period")

  • In light of the new field "reporting period", existing calculated fields on the SCReport, "data start date" and "data end date", are moved to the report footer

  • To streamline documentation, a numeric identifier is appended to each error message.



 
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