Assigning components to products and Cloud Paks according to custom bundling relations

If the product and license metric that are listed in your license agreement are not available for choosing during software classification, create a custom bundling relation.

Before you begin

You must have the Manage Software Classification permission to view the Software Classification panel and classify software. To view some additional columns related to computers on which the components are installed, you also need the View Endpoints permission.

1. In the top navigation bar, hover over Reports, and click Software Classification.
2. Select a component or components that you want to assign.
3. Hover over Assign, and click Choose from Catalog.
4. To view all products that exist in the catalog, clear the List products for which the component is listed as a bundling option check box.
5. Select the product, license metric, and Cloud Pak or FlexPoint bundle that are in line with information in your license agreement.
   • To narrow the list of displayed products, sort the results by columns or use the search bar that is available at the top of each column. After you type the search phrase, press Enter.
   • If you defined your software entitlements, type "Yes" in the column Entitled to view only the software that you own. For more information, see: Defining software entitlements.

   
6. Optional: To extend the current component assignment with the selected product instead of reassigning the component, select Share component. As a result, the component is shared between the product to which it is currently assigned and the selected product. Each assignment is listed as a separate instance on the report.
   Important:

   Sharing does not work if you try to share a component that is assigned to a product that is a part of a Cloud Pak and the same product with the same metric but under a different Cloud Pak. In such case, the component and product are reassigned to the new Cloud Pak.

   To stop sharing the component between multiple products, select all instances of the component and assign them to a common product, but leave the Share component check box cleared.

7. Optional: Confirming the assignment is optional and is used to indicate how many software items still require your review. If you do not want the assignment to be automatically confirmed, clear the Automatically confirm the affected components check box.
8. To change the assignment, click Assign.
9. Choose whether you want the relation between the component and the product to be charged or not charged. If the relation is charged, the component contributes to metric utilization of the product. Otherwise, it does not contribute to metric utilization of the product.
   If you selected a product that is a part of a Cloud Pak or FlexPoint bundle, the choice applies only to the relation between the component and the product. It does not apply to the relation between the product and Cloud Pak or FlexPoint bundle. The latter relation is not customizable and is always taken from the software catalog.
10. To change the assignment, click Assign.