IBM Announcement : Price Changes for Subscription and Support Software

Last year we already signaled a price raise for DB2 V8 for z/OS starting at April 1, 2011. Hey, come to think of it, no April Fools' Day joke, this one. Here's another announcement for some Subscription and Support software in order "to bring the price of the Subscription and Support offerings in line with the price of the associated product offerings" : 'Price changes on several IBM Subscription and Support Software Programs (S&S) (ZA11-1001)'.

The products with their respective S&S are :

IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V7.0
IBM Rational Asset Analyzer for z/OS V6
IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PE on z/OS V5.1
IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for DB2 PM on z/OS V5.1
IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 High Performance Unload for z/OS V4.1
IBM DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS V10.1
IBM DB2 Buffer Pool Analyzer for z/OS V5.1
IBM DB2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS V4.1

Price increases vary per product and go from 0% up to 55% for Belgian customers. Prices also become effective April 1, 2011. Check out the announcement for more details.