Inventory explorer - Tab: Software maintenance
Software maintenance - 4 views
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Overview - shows a summary of active Software Maintenance renewal contracts (Service Contracts) including editions, covered cores. Currently IBM i and AIX operating systems, PowerHA for IBM i and AIX, Db2 Web Query for i and PowerVM are included in this view
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Active/Shipped - you can see all your active and shipping software maintenance contracts for the products you are licensed to use. Shipping contracts are records that are about to be activated (set to Active). Only Active contracts provide support and services at IBM, so if a contract is shipped for too long, contact your IBM Representative or Business Partner and request it to be activated (installed). Brand groups matching the licensed products are also used here
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Expired/Inactive - all your past / expired hardware maintenance services contracts are shown in this section upon clicking, since it is not automatically loaded
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License relations - shows a list of your software maintenance contracts together with the software licenses they shipped with. If the related record is tied to a different hardware than the one you selected, you see what the other hardware is