Licenses and entitlements

Your IBM® watsonx.data license determines the components and programs that you are entitled to use.

watsonx.data on Red Hat® OpenShift®

License information

Detailed information about the watsonx.data licenses is available on the IBM Terms site.

What's included with your watsonx.data license?

Your purchase of watsonx.data includes entitlements to the watsonx.data software and the following prerequisites that you need to be able to install watsonx.data.
  • IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform software
  • IBM Cloud Pak foundational services
  • Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark
  • EDB PostgreSQL with IBM
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux®
  • IBM Spectrum® Fusion storage
  • IBM Storage Ceph®

The watsonx.data is also optionally available in a Non-Production version.

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 watsonx.data, an entitlement API key for the software is associated with your My IBM account. You need this key to complete the watsonx.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 watsonx.data. You can use your watsonx.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.

You can refer to watsonx.data license for details.

Obtaining IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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

By default, the following services are automatically installed when you install watsonx.data:
  • IBM Cloud Pak For Data
  • IBM Cloud Pak foundational services
  • EDB PostgreSQL with IBM 14.7

The License Service is automatically installed when you run the cpd-cli manage apply-entitlement command.

Obtaining watsonx.data

Images for the watsonx.data are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. Installing includes information on how to access or mirror the images for the software that you want to install.

Obtaining storage entitlement

You are entitled to use the following storage for watsonx.data
IBM Storage Ceph
IBM Storage Ceph 5.3 Activation Key forIBM Storage Insights information is available on IBM Passport Advantage® (M0BCGML) .
IBM Spectrum Fusion
IBM Spectrum Fusion images are available in the IBM Entitled Registry. The IBM Spectrum Fusion Readme (M0BMMEN) on IBM Passport Advantage includes information on how to access the software images.

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 watsonx.data usage. For more information, see Monitoring and reporting use against license terms.