MSU hour
Catalog row in Vendor License Metrics · Cited
- Unit
- Million service units per hour (IBM z/OS)
- Definition
- Rate card: Mainframe Monitoring is priced "per MSU hour". The Platform Usage Supplement defines an MSU as an IBM measurement of the processing workload an IBM Z mainframe can perform per hour.
- Counting rules
- Classic licences count the peak rolling 4-hour average MSU of the most recent month per monitored LPAR or subsystem, from Dynatrace or the IBM SCRT report.
- Floors / minimums
- None.
- Applies to products
- Mainframe Monitoring
- Product category