ILMT: IBM License Metric Tool
Your IBM Software Costs Are Rising Every Year. ILMT Shows You Why, and What to Do About It.
IBM's sub-capacity licensing model is deliberately complex. Most organizations running DB2, WebSphere, or IBM middleware don't know their true run rate. ILMT is the tool that makes those costs visible. What organizations discover in ILMT often becomes the financial case for migration.
IBM Licensing Complexity Is Often Invisible Until It's Expensive
"We receive IBM licensing invoices we can't fully reconcile"
IBM's sub-capacity licensing calculation is opaque without proper tooling. ILMT provides the audit-ready reporting that makes your true IBM software cost visible and defensible.
"We're not sure whether we're IBM license compliant"
IBM audits are real and the penalties for non-compliance are significant. ILMT deployment is how organizations establish and maintain compliance for sub-capacity IBM software.
"Our IBM software costs keep growing even though our usage hasn't changed significantly"
Sub-capacity licensing costs grow with infrastructure changes that seem unrelated to IBM software. Server additions, virtualization changes, and hardware refreshes can all trigger licensing cost increases.
"We're about to refresh hardware or change our virtualization platform"
Hardware refresh events are IBM licensing events. Changes to your virtualization platform can change your sub-capacity calculations significantly. ILMT gives you the visibility to model these changes before they happen.
"We want to move IBM workloads to cloud but don't know the licensing implications"
IBM BYOL options on AWS can change the cost model for DB2 and IBM middleware significantly. Understanding your current ILMT position is the starting point for modeling the cloud alternative.
"We have IBM software across multiple environments and no central visibility"
Hybrid environments with IBM software on-premise, in private cloud, and in public cloud require consolidated license management. ILMT provides that consolidated view.
Compliance Today. Migration Case Tomorrow.
ILMT gives you accurate sub-capacity license counts for all IBM software in your environment. It produces the audit-ready reports that IBM compliance requires. And crucially, it surfaces the data that makes the financial case for moving IBM workloads to AWS.
Organizations that treat ILMT as a compliance exercise miss its strategic value. The licensing data ILMT produces is exactly what a COBRA™ assessment uses to model the financial case for migration. Compliance work and migration planning are the same work.
ILMT Covers These IBM Products
- IBM DB2 (all editions)
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- IBM MQ / IBM Integration Bus
- IBM Spectrum (storage management)
- IBM Cognos Analytics
- IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
- Other IBM sub-capacity licensed software
ILMT Discovery Is Often the Start of a Migration Conversation
Organizations using ILMT to manage IBM licensing often discover their IBM footprint is larger and more expensive than they believed. That data, what your IBM software is actually costing you, is exactly what COBRA™ uses to build the financial case for migration. Discovering your true IBM software cost is often the first step toward the migration conversation.
Your IBM Licensing Analysis Is Part of COBRA™
COBRA™ includes ILMT-grade licensing analysis for DB2, WebSphere, and IBM middleware as part of its standard scope. You get the compliance picture and the migration case in the same engagement.