Re: SWMA Addons for this year from IBM?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I have been notified offline that I went through this a few
years back (it's in the archives.. haha!)

Every year I tell them I don't use webquery.  The other 2 just showed up
this year for the first time.

Pricing is good for developers, but going from 200 to 1800 is silly,
especially since it's adding 3 items I never use, was billed for, or that
they can even explain what they are.  Me thinks IBM may be hurting for $$
in this great inflation messed up economy.  But who knows.

The other bad thing is every BP I work with seems to leave before the next
year and trying to get someone that will assist is like pulling teeth.
Then this year before renewing I had to update my solutions in the GSD.  I
did, but they were being reviewed for 2 weeks and the new BP was insisting
that I did something wrong.  I told them I did the same thing I do every
year.  I can't change the status from "pending" to "approve"... IBM has to
do that.  After the BP was able to get in contact with someone at GSD they
finally approved them.

What a mess.  I think every company is going through pains with new
employees... I'm getting more and more customers every day that don't know
how to add libraries to their library list, create a job log, etc.  I had
one customer send me 100 screen shots of each page of their job log just
the other day.  I guess all that means is it's time for me to start billing
for consulting time when I have to teach basic admin duties to the newbies.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:40 PM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Brad,
>
> I am not sure about the others but we always remove 5661-WQE as we do not
> use it and none of the clients we look after use it.
>
> We always buy 5 years HW and SW maintenance with the new box which I
> believe is the best way to do it and prices are locked in.
>
> I have no idea what 10x pricing actually equates to ? care to share ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
>
> From:   "Brad Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   22/09/2021 02:54 AM
> Subject:        SWMA Addons for this year from IBM?
> Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> I finally was able to get an invoice for my SWMA and it looks like IBM is
> tacking on a few more bigger ticket items (I have a developer account).
>
> Anyone know what these are?  Finding out from IBM is like pulling teeth.
> They claim it was a discount for people who didn't have a SWMA and these
> were waived for a year, but I never had them for over 8 years and never
> dropped my SWMA.
>
> Here are the new items.  It's basically upped the price by 10x for a
> developer.
>
> 5661-WQE 1-Year After License SWMA for 5733-WQE (Purchase Only, @ No
> Discount) - Appears to be web query, which I don't use
>
> 5771-ALS After License SWMA for 5765-PVS/VS3(Purchase Only, @50% Discount)
> -
> No idea what this is.
>
> 5771-PVS 1-Year SWMA for 5765-PVS/VS3 (Purchase Only, @50% Discount) - No
> Idea here either.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
> www.bvstools.com
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