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The IBM Capacity BackUp (CBU) is designed to enable a new Power server to act as a backup system in a high availability or disaster recovery environment. The Machine Type and Model of your designated 'primary system' is a determining factor for the Machine Type and Model you will be eligible for on your new CBU system. Before submitting the CBU registration/validation form below, an order must first be placed for a IBM server, which will generate a IBM Plant Order Number. This Plant Order Number will be required on the registration form below. The Plant Order Number must include a CBU Feature Code. If your 'primary system' is going to be a new box order or you are upgrading your current installed box, the IBM Plant Order Number will also be required for the CBU registration/validation form.

Prior to shipment of your CBU, you must complete the form below for registration/validation and accept the terms and conditions of the attached CBU agreement. Validation of this submission will authorize the shipment of your new CBU order.

To complete this CBU registration form you will need to obtain the following information from your IBM Representative or your IBM Business Partner who placed your new CBU order.

  1. Primary System: The System that the CBU will act as 'backup' in a high availability or disaster recovery environment (choose one of the options below):
    • Current/Installed Existing System (system at customer location): Serial number (2 digit prefix and 5 alphanumeric serial number), MachineType (4 numeric) Model (3 alphanumeric).
    • New Box or Upgrade MES (system is not yet at customer location, new order being processed): IBM Plant Order # (6 alphanumeric), MachineType (4 numeric) Model (3 alphanumeric).
  2. CBU System (Backup): IBM Plant Order Number (6 alphanumeric), MachineType (4 numeric) Model (3 alphanumeric).
  3. IBM Customer Number associated with the CBU order
  4. Comments/Exceptions: If for any reason you are unable to match up the information on your order with the information requested or provided in this Web form registration, please use this field to enter any additional information that may help us determine eligibility.

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Customer information

Company information

Primary System hardware information

System that your new IBM CBU order will act as backup for

Capacity Backup Unit (CBU) hardware system information

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(Enter your CBU 6 alphanumeric Plant Order Number)

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(Your selection MUST match the Machine Type and Model that was ordered on CBU IBM Plant Order # above)

Availability solution information

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Comments / exceptions

If for any reason you are unable to match up the information on your order with the information requested or provided in this Web form registration, please use this field to enter any additional information that may help us determine eligibility.

Terms & Conditions

LICENSE INFORMATION

The Programs listed below are licensed under the following terms and conditions in addition to those of the International Program License Agreement.

Program Name: IBM i5/OS (CBU Amendment)
Program Number: 5722-SS1
Authorization for Use on Home/Portable Computer: You may not copy and use this Program on another computer without paying additional license fees.

Limited Use Rights for Other IBM Programs

If You acquired this Program as part of another IBM Program ("Principal Program") that lists this Program under "Other IBM Programs", You received this Program only in support of the Principal Program, and Your rights to use this Program will be limited by the license of the Principal Program. Please contact Your IBM Sales Representative if You wish to acquire a separate license to this Program not limited by the Principal Program's license terms.

Specified Operating Environment

The Program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the Program, if available, such as a read-me file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter.

Program-unique Terms

Amendment to the V5R3 and Later License Information Document for 5722-SS1

The following terms apply to Your purchase of a System i Capacity Back-up ("CBU") Machine running V5R3 or later i5/OS (5722-SS1). The following terms amend the "Transfer of Program Rights and Obligations" terms section in the corresponding i5/OS (5722-SS1) License Information document.

Your purchase of a CBU Machine requires You to identify the Primary Machine that will be paired with the corresponding CBU Machine. A "Primary Machine" is defined as the System i Machine on which the production applications normally run. The corresponding CBU Machine is the backup machine that is paired with the Primary Machine. Both the Primary Machine and corresponding CBU Machine must be in a configuration within Your Enterprise where the CBU Machine can assume some or all production from the Primary Machine. You specify the paired machines by entering serial number information regarding both the Primary Machine and the corresponding CBU Machine into the IBM CBU web site (www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/cbu).

Except for CBU machines which have i5/OS priced per user, the Primary Machine must be equal to or larger in size than the corresponding CBU Machine as measured by CPW (Commercial Processing Workload). A CBU Machine must continuously be paired with a Primary Machine

Base i5/OS User entitlements, i5/OS Base processor entitlements or base enterprise enablement, included at no additional charge with Your purchase of a Machine, may not be moved to the another Machine. Optional i5/OS User entitlement, optional i5/OS processor entitlements or optional enterprise enablement, purchased for an additional charge, may be temporarily moved from a Primary Machine to its corresponding CBU Machine (at which time the "Out of Compliance" i5/OS error message may be ignored) and may subsequently be moved back to the Primary Machine. Optional i5/OS User entitlement, optional i5/OS processor entitlements i5/OS or optional enterprise enablement initially acquired on the corresponding CBU Machine may not be moved to another Machine.

If Your Primary Machine is an iSeries model 825, 870, or 890, You may temporarily move 5250 OLTP to its corresponding CBU Machine and may subsequently be moved back to the Primary Machine. This movement must be in whole processors of 5250 OLTP and can only occur if there is a corresponding reduction in 5250 OLTP on the Primary Machine. The maximum number of processors of 5250 OLTP which can move from a Primary Machine to its corresponding CBU Machine is the number of optional processor entitlements to i5/OS originally licensed on the Primary Machine.

Any move of an optional i5/OS User entitlement, optional i5/OS processor entitlement, optional enterprise enablement, or 5250 OLTP from a Primary Machine to a corresponding CBU Machine terminates Your authorization to use that entitlement on the Primary Machine while it is being used on the CBU machine.

If the Primary Machine or the corresponding CBU Machine are sold or discontinued from use, then any optional entitlements must be moved back to the Machine on which they were originally licensed. If the corresponding CBU Machine is transferred, You must provide a printed copy of this license agreement in its entirety to the new owner of the machine.

IBM may audit Your compliance with these terms upon reasonable advance notice to You.

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