Creating and displaying status reports through the Creation Condition Report (Nuc) does not require a license. These documents are available for your reference and display convenience. They are normally integrated with IBM software on paper, on a CD or in softcopy software for acceptance before installation or first use of the software. A reporter can enter an incident and view the status of that incident without a license, but to change the status of the reported incident, a license is required. The reasons I have suggested can all be reduced to one, a way to sell more software. A license audit is a blunt but very compelling tool to encourage you to spend more money with IBM. This license gives the user reading and writing access to all Maximo modules, applications and functions. This is the most complete and therefore the most expensive type of license. An example of a typical user would be a planner, scheduler, basic data/system administrator. If your business as a whole seems to be growing significantly, IBM is expected to invest with them. You expect to buy more licenses for existing and new products. If this is not the case, an examination can be expected.

When purchasing a software license, the license usually includes one year of subscription and support ( S-S). While the license allows them to provide and use the program, S-S allows you to get technical support and use product updates. It`s up to you to decide to continue after the first year. If you want to continue for this product, you can continue to rely on IBM Support and update. If you decide to cancel the S-S, the technical support will end and you can no longer use the updates provided by IBM after the date until the payment of S-S. There is no offer between the two. The so-called „All-or-Nothing“ rule requires you to use S-S for all your deliveries, including product deliveries that are no longer supported or for any of your deployments (Section 3.8 of the Passport Advantage Agreement). Randy is our software license compliance analyst. He specializes in IBM software and the IBM License Metric Tool.

He brings extensive technical experience to his former role in IBM Cloud Lab Services, where he designed and implemented cloud solutions. This allows it to understand the technical and financial impact of a software licensing agreement and help customers retain control of their licensing services. Maximo contains a self-service module. No paid Maximo user license is required for users who increase service or office requirements using this module. Users with limited usage also have access to an Express user, as described in the Maximo Asset Management License Information Document. IBM is a large software company with a software catalog of more than 12,000 different software programs and each of these programs may contain one or more support programs (components). These programs may be different in version, edition and version or edition, which may contain different features. What complicates matters further is that each version or edition can introduce different licensing metrics and may involve different components that may or may not be free and have their own licensing scenarios (for example. B, different licenses for the use of production and/or non-production, the granting of disaster recovery licenses).