Here's the annual EMEA announcement for the MLC software price changes. They become effective July 1, 2013 : 'General Price Action on System z, zSeries and S/390 Software Program Products (ZA13-1001)'. The same reason as always : "As a result of currency fluctuations over the past few years, the prices
of some Program Products have become unaligned when compared between
countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In order to better
harmonize pricing structures across countries within EMEA and also
versus US prices, IBM has decided to adjust prices accordingly."
There's a new element however. We do no longer talk about 'price changes'. "IBM is therefore announcing price decreases and increases in the Monthly
License Charges for selected System z, zSeries, and S/390 Program
Products and their features". A bit of a laconic explanation follows : "For each price point for which the price will be reduced, the applicable
reduction will not exceed 2%. Likewise, for each price point for which
the price will be increased, the price increase for the impacted MLC
prices will not exceed 5%".
The following softwares are excluded : IMS V9 through V12 and CICS TS V3 and V4.
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