Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS

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IBM® Tivoli® License Compliance Manager for z/OS® enables IT to align software spending with business priorities

It identifies software inventory, measures use activity and automatically links license entitlements to help manage costs and license compliance in mainframe environments.

• Monitors software-use trends to help you plan financially optimal capacity upgrades and server consolidations, allocate additional resources to priority projects, and plan the migration of old-version and duplicate-function software
• Proactively manages and verifies license compliance
• Identifies software inventory with no or low-use activity to reduce unnecessary license fees and allocate expensive low-use software to the appropriate department, enhancing the charge-back process
• Enables you to effectively prepare for contract negations and audits with key information
• Reports on the MIPS capacity of each LPAR under which software is running
• Improves disaster recovery planning with software-use activity information
• Solves major information challenges needed for effective mainframe software asset management by identifying software inventory, measuring product use activity by LPAR, and automatically link license entitlements to installed inventory and use activity

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