Using the MSU Cost Editor

To calculate the costs of running a product, Cost Management requires you to insert cost coefficients from your IBM license agreement into cost tables. Use the MSU Cost Editor to edit the cost coefficients for each MLC product on your system.

Related topics

Pricing-Metric-types

Editing-the-cost-coefficients

Cost Management sets the default value of the cost coefficients in these tables to zero. You must edit the cost coefficients in the cost tables by entering your actual cost coefficient values provided by IBM.

Important

You must specify the cost coefficients for your MLC products before you can use the MLC Software Contract Reporting, MLC Monthly Reporting, or MLC Planning tools. Similarly, you should edit the cost coefficients to reflect any changes to your pricing arrangements with IBM.

To select a product type

  1. From the console, click Cost Management Tools.
  2. From the Cost Management Tools list, click MSU Cost Editor.
    The MSU Cost Editor is displayed.

The Type column displays all the products that use the selected pricing type.

Important

When you start with a session for the first time, the default product type is MLC, but in the subsequent sessions, the filter last selected becomes the default product type.

To edit the cost coefficients

  1.  In the MSU Cost Editor, perform one of the following actions:
    • To specify coefficients for a specific product, find the row for that product and click the Edit link in the Cost Coefficients column.

    • To specify or modify cost coefficients for individual Features of an MLC product, clickimage2020-9-9_20-15-27.pngin that product's row to display the product's available features; then click Edit in the Cost Coefficients column for the feature that you want.

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  2. A cost table displays the MSU ranges and their associated cost coefficients.

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    The following Pricing Metric types are available:

    • AEWLC
    • AWLC
    • CMLC
    • EWLC
    • FWLC
    • MzNALC
    • VWLC
    • ZNALC

    Important

  3.  From the Pricing Metric Type list, click the desired type to select its cost table for editing.You should edit a separate cost table for each Pricing Metric Type associated with the product. A pencil GUID-4C305CF5-2EB8-4657-BBDE-D53F3C5B9790-low.pngnext to the Pricing Metric Type designation indicates that the cost table has been previously edited.

    Tip

    You can edit multiple cost tables at one time. If you want to switch to another cost table, click Pricing Metric Type to select it. You can perform this action whenever you want to alternate between cost tables.

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