Licenses and entitlements
Your license determines the components and services that you are entitled to use.
License information
You can purchase different licenses:
| 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 StreamSets | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| Informix | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| MANTA Automated Data Lineage | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| MongoDB | 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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| 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 Code Assistant™ for Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx Code Assistant for Z | You can purchase the following licenses:
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| watsonx.data | 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 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 |
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| 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:
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| IBM Cloud Pak foundational services | IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is a non-chargeable component. |
| IBM Fusion Essentials | IBM Fusion Data Foundation is included with the IBM Cloud Pak for Data license. You can deploy IBM Fusion Data Foundation in internal mode with up to 12 TB of usable capacity. |
| 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®. |
- Up to 5 users with the Create dashboards permission.
- Up to 20 users with the View dashboards permission.
If you exceed either of these limits, you must purchase a Cognos license.
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 |
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| 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:
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| IBM Cloud Pak foundational services | IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is a non-chargeable component. |
| IBM Fusion Essentials | IBM Fusion Data Foundation is included with the IBM Cloud Pak for Data license. You can deploy IBM Fusion Data Foundation in internal mode with up to 12 TB of usable capacity. |
| 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. |
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.
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.
- 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
IBM Cloud Pak foundational services is a prerequisite for Cloud Pak for Data. Installing IBM Software Hub includes information on how to access or mirror the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services images.
- IBM Certificate manager
- Identity Management Service (Identity Management Service)
The License Service is automatically
installed when you run the cpd-cli
manage
apply-entitlement command. For more information, see Tracking 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 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 Cloud Pak for Data cluster is available in the IBM Entitled Registry.
Obtaining IBM Fusion Essentials
Cloud Pak for Data includes entitlement to IBM Fusion Essentials upon acceptance of the Cloud Pak for Data license.
IBM Fusion Essentials provides the storage that you need to get started without purchasing a storage license. You can also upgrade your license to enable capabilities such as online backup and disaster recovery with no service disruption.
- Entitlement terms
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You are entitled to up to 12 TB of IBM Fusion Data Foundation per cluster in internal deployment mode. If you exceed this amount, a separate license is required. There is no time usage limit, and this entitlement is supported by IBM.
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.