Re: SWMA Addons for this year from IBM?

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"
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Date: 22/09/2021 02:54 AM
Subject: SWMA Addons for this year from IBM?
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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
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