IBM MQ licensing and audit defense.
IBM MQ moves the messages that keep your business running, and it sits on exactly the kind of widely connected estate that audits love. We map how MQ is licensed, where the count goes wrong, and how to defend it. Independent and buyer side, we are not affiliated with IBM.
MQ is metered to capacity, so every core it can touch is a core IBM can count.
Standalone IBM MQ production deployments are licensed by the processor value unit, the core based metric where PVU per core, around 70 PVU for a typical Intel core, is multiplied by the cores allocated to the software. MQ is sub capacity eligible, so with ILMT in place you can license only the virtual cores running it rather than the whole physical host.
Where MQ ships inside Cloud Pak for Integration, it is metered in virtual processor cores. Since Passport Advantage version 11, VPC metered products fall under sub capacity reporting and ILMT as well, and manual core counting is no longer accepted. The metric you are charged on depends on how MQ entered your estate, and that is the first thing an audit tests.
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