IBM launches New License Information Site

A slick new consolidated (and overdue) look for all IBM terms from one convenient site.

The site contains IBM's standard terms, you can access and view online. Below is a summary list of the standard terms hosted on the site:

• IBM Client Relationship Agreement (CRA) is the single agreement used to procure most IBM offerings.
• The CRA family of agreements provide Clients with the flexibility to acquire a specific set of offerings with only the terms necessary to support the acquisition of those offerings. The CRA family of agreements, includes but is not limited to, the Cloud Services Agreement (CSA) and the CRA – Services.
• Attachments to the CRA family of agreements. When a Client uses one of the CRA family of agreements for a prior transaction involving only a specific offering and chooses, at a later time, to expand the terms of their CRA family of Agreement to include other offerings, they may do so by adding an attachment containing those supplemental terms when desired.
• IBM Data Processing Addendum (DPA) and Statement of Limited Warranty (SoLW) and other standards required to meet specific regulatory, legal and offering specific requirements.

Use the filter function to view specific content by selecting the applicable category, country and language.

The Software license terms (all post May 1999) are searchable via the 'Licensing & Compliance' filter category, by time frame or license information (Program name/number, document form/part number, License Information (LI) number or License Information (LI) title):

The (incremental) search then returns a tabular list of qualifying documents (this example for Message Broker):

Which on selection provides the License Information detail in the familiar (and traditional!) format:

So nothing new or revolutionary on that front, however the ease of use and in particular the layout, share, download, and notification options provide all of the basic /requisite features you'll need - all in all, a welcome step forward from the IBM licensing team!