License term
Each scope in a license is covered under a license term that determines if the discovered software is counted against the license entitlement in license use reports.
License term refers to the term
agreed to between your organization and the vendor the software was
licensed from. The license terms
that follow indicate when and if software use is counted against the
license entitlement:
- Executed
- The software is counted only if it is installed and run. An example is the IBM® distributed IPLA execution-based subcapacity license. All usage-related capacity metrics fall under this category; for example: number of users, terabytes of managed storage, and so on. Note that the ability to determine usage under this term is limited by the type of discovery tool used to collect software data. Some non-IBM discovery tools cannot collect usage data, but Tivoli® Asset Discovery for Distributed and Asset Discovery for z/OS® can.
- Installed
- The software is counted only if it is installed. That is, the software is counted only if it is found during the discovery process. An example is the distributed ISV seat/installed-instance license.
- Licensed
- The software is counted, even if it is neither installed nor run. This term is used with mainframe licenses. If the software is licensed to a computer, it is counted. An example is the IBM mainframe Variable Workload License Charge (VWLC) license. If a computer's licensable capacity is upgraded, the licensed capacity (for a full-capacity license, other than FWLC) must be increased to accommodate the new computer capacity (regardless of whether the software is installed) to be compliant.