Licenses and entitlements
Your license determines the components and services that you are entitled to use.
License information
You can purchase different licenses depending on the services that you want to install on your environment:
| Solutions | More information |
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| Cloud Pak for Data | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Cognos Analytics | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Data Product Hub | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Data Replication | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| DataStage | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Db2 | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| EDB Postgres | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| IBM Manta Data Lineage | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| IBM Master Data Management | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| IBM StreamSets | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Informix | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| OpenPages | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Planning Analytics | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Product Master | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Unstructured Data Integration | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Watson Discovery | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Watson Speech services | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.ai™ | You can purchase the following licenses:
In addition, you can purchase the following licenses to use models provided by Mistral AI:
For information about the models that are included in the preceding Mistral AI licenses, see Foundation Models. |
| watsonx Assistant | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx™ BI | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx Code Assistant™ for Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.data | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.data Premium | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.data integration | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.data intelligence | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.governance™ | You can purchase one or more of the following licenses:
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| watsonx Orchestrate | You can purchase the following licenses:
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What's included with your license?
Your purchase includes entitlements to the following software.
| Software | Details |
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| IBM Software Hub |
The following components of the platform are non-chargeable components:
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| IBM Cloud Pak foundational services | IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is a non-chargeable component. |
| Red Hat OpenShift® Container Platform | Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform entitlement applies
only to self-managed OpenShift. If you
plan to use managed OpenShift, you must
purchase a subscription through your provider. Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform entitlement does not apply to:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform also includes entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. |
Some licenses also include entitlement to IBM Fusion Essentials. IBM Fusion Essentials provides the storage that you need to get started without purchasing a storage license.
| Software | Entitlement terms |
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| IBM Fusion Essentials |
You are entitled to a maximum of 12 TB of IBM Fusion Data Foundation storage per Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster. Use of IBM
Fusion Data Foundation is limited to internal
deployment mode. Your entitlement does not include:
You can upgrade your license to enable capabilities such as online backup and disaster recovery. |
Obtaining your IBM entitlement API key
You must have your IBM entitlement API key to access images in the IBM Entitled Registry.
After you purchase a license, an entitlement API key for the software is associated with your My IBM account. You need this key to complete the installation.
- Log in to Container software library on My IBM with the IBMid and password that are associated with the entitled software.
- On the Entitlement keys tab, select Copy to copy the entitlement key to the clipboard.
- Save the API key in a text file.
Obtaining Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a prerequisite for Cloud Pak for Data. You can use your Cloud Pak for Data entitlement to install self-managed OpenShift on the infrastructure of your choice.
You can download Red Hat OpenShift from the Red Hat Customer Portal.
When you purchase an IBM product that includes entitlement to Red Hat software, the Red Hat software is accessible through your Red Hat account.
Obtaining IBM Cloud Pak foundational services
The IBM Cloud Pak foundational services are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. Installing IBM Software Hub includes information on how to access or mirror the images.
The License Service is installed when you run
the cpd-cli
manage
apply-cluster-components command.
- Cloud Native PostgreSQL
- Identity Management Service
- Platform user interface
- Usage Metering Service
Obtaining the platform and services
Most of the images for the IBM Software Hub platform and services are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. Installing IBM Software Hub includes information on how to access or mirror the images for the software that you want to install.
- Execution Engine for Hadoop
- The software that is installed on your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster is available in the IBM Entitled Registry.
Obtaining IBM Fusion Essentials
The images for the IBM Fusion Essentials software are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. The IBM Fusion documentation includes information on how to access or mirror the images for IBM Fusion software.
Reporting your use
You are required to keep a record of the size of deployments to report to IBM as requested. If you are using Container Licensing, you can use the License Service to measure Cloud Pak for Data usage. For more information, see Tracking and reporting use against license terms.