Licenses and entitlements

Your IBM Cloud Pak® for Data license determines the components and services that you are entitled to use.

License information

You can purchase several different Cloud Pak for Data licenses:

  • Cloud Pak for Data Standard Edition
  • Cloud Pak for Data Enterprise Edition
  • Cloud Pak for Data cartridges
  • Data Governance Express®
  • Data Science and ML Ops Express
  • ELT Pushdown Express

Detailed information about the Cloud Pak for Data licenses is available in the IBM Cloud Pak for Data License Information topic on the IBM® Support site.

What's included with your Cloud Pak for Data license?

Your purchase of Cloud Pak for Data Standard Edition or Cloud Pak for Data Enterprise Edition includes entitlements to the Cloud Pak for Data platform software and several prerequisites that you need to be able to install Cloud Pak for Data.

The Enterprise Edition license includes a 60-day trial and is optionally available in a Non-Production version, which is available at a lower cost.

Software Details
IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform software For a list of services that are included with Cloud Pak for Data, see the IBM Cloud Pak for Data License Information topic on the IBM Support site.

The following components of the platform are non-chargeable components:

  • Cloud Pak for Data control plane
  • Db2® Data Management Console
  • Common database management UI
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:
  • Trial licenses
  • Software that is not included in your Cloud Pak for Data Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition license

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform also includes entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.

What's included with your cartridge license?

Your purchase of a Cloud Pak for Data cartridge includes entitlements to the Cloud Pak for Data platform software and several prerequisites that you need to be able to install Cloud Pak for Data.

Software Notes
IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform software The services that you are entitled to depends on the cartridge that you purchase. For more information, see IBM Cloud Pak for Data License Information.

The following components of the platform are non-chargeable components:

  • Cloud Pak for Data control plane
  • Db2 Data Management Console
  • Common database management UI
  • Common core services
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:
  • Trial licenses
  • Software that is not included in your cartridge license

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform also includes entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

All cartridges contain at least one Cloud Pak for Data service (containerized software that is installed with and works with Cloud Pak for Data).

Some cartridges also include entitlements to on-premises, stand-alone software that you can use as you migrate to Cloud Pak for Data. For information about the specific software included your cartridge, see IBM Cloud Pak for Data License Information.

Note: The Cloud Pak for Data documentation includes information on how to install the containerized software (services) that you are entitled to. For information on installing the stand-alone software, refer to the documentation for the version of the stand-alone software that you are running.

What's included with express offerings?

Express offerings provide bundles of services designed to kick-start your data fabric journey with Cloud Pak for Data. The following table shows what is included with the express offerings:

Express offering Services Limitations
Data Governance Express offering You can install only Watson Knowledge Catalog core functionality.
You cannot install the following optional components of Watson Knowledge Catalog:
  • Lineage
  • Semantic search
  • Data quality features in analytics projects
  • Advanced metadata import

For more information, see Preparing to install Watson Knowledge Catalog.
Data Science and ML Ops Express offering The following features are not available in the Data Science and ML Ops Express offering:
Watson Machine Learning
The Federated Learning feature is not available.
Watson Studio
The Data Refinery feature is not available.
ELT Pushdown Express offering

With the ELT Pushdown Express offering, you are limited to compiling all DataStage flows in SQL and running them in SQL pushdown mode.

You cannot use any other features of the DataStage service.
For detailed license information, see IBM Cloud Pak for Data License Information.

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 Cloud Pak for Data, an entitlement API key for the software is associated with your My IBM account. You need this key to complete the Cloud Pak for Data installation.

To obtain the IBM entitlement API key that is associated with your My IBM account:
  1. Log in to Container software library on My IBM with the IBMid and password that are associated with the entitled software.
  2. On the Entitlement keys tab, select Copy to copy the entitlement key to the clipboard.
  3. 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 is accessible through your Red Hat account.

Obtaining IBM Cloud Pak foundational services

IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is a prerequisite for Cloud Pak for Data. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Data includes information on how to access or mirror the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services images.

By default, the following foundational services are automatically installed when you install Cloud Pak for Data:
  • IBM Certificate manager
  • Identity and Access Management Service (IAM Service)
  • IBM Cloud Pak Administration Hub

The License Service is automatically installed when you run the cpd-cli manage apply-entitlement command. For more information, see Monitoring and reporting use against license terms.

Obtaining Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Data services

Most of the images for the Cloud Pak for Data platform and services are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. Installing IBM Cloud Pak for Data 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 Cloud Pak for Data cluster is available in the IBM Entitled Registry.
The software that is installed on your Apache Hadoop cluster is available in IBM Passport Advantage®:
  • M06D7EN: Cloud Pak for Data Enterprise Edition - Execution Engine for Hadoop
  • M06D4EN: Cloud Pak for Data Standard Edition - Execution Engine for Hadoop

Obtaining no-charge storage entitlement

Cloud Pak for Data customers can obtain IBM Storage Fusion storage entitlement at no charge.
Entitlement terms

IBM Storage Fusion entitlement applies only to self-managed OpenShift.

You are entitled to use IBM Storage Fusion with the following limitations:

  • You can use up to 6 TB of IBM Storage Fusion storage.
  • You can use IBM Storage Fusion for up to 12 months.

If you exceed these terms, a separate license is required.

Contact your IBM Sales representative for access to this storage.

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 Monitoring and reporting use against license terms.