FlexPoint
Catalog row in Vendor License Metrics · Cited
- Unit
- Other
- Aliases
- FlexPoints; FlexPoint bundle
- Definition
- "FlexPoint is a license metric unit that can be used to determine the cost of IBM products that are purchased as part of FlexPoint bundles. Each product from a bundle is licensed based on a different license metric but all metrics are converted into FlexPoints." (IBM License Metric Tool 9.2, FlexPoints)
- Counting rules
- For each product deployed from a FlexPoint bundle, the metric units that product uses are multiplied by the FlexPoints assigned per metric unit for that product; the results are summed for the whole bundle. IBM's worked example (IBM Cloud DevOps): 2 Virtual Servers x 129,800 + 50 Authorized Users x 15,950 + 210 PVUs x 2,893 = 1,664,630 FlexPoints. PVU and RVU MAPC products assigned to a FlexPoint bundle "must be licensed based on subcapacity rules" (Reported license metrics). FlexPoints per metric unit are set per bundle; no global table is published on the cited pages.
- Applies to products
- IBM Cloud DevOps
- IBM Cloud brand FlexPoint bundles
- IBM Analytics brand FlexPoint bundles
- Applies to versions
- License Metric Tool 9.2.13 and later
- Product category