A customer has a new z14 and would like Container Pricing for the z/OS system based on their monthly usage. How will the pricing be based through Resourcelink tables?

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Options

• AMIPS
• BLSPR
• CITRR
• DMSU

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  3% (1)
• D
  90% (27)

Explanation

MSU (Million Service Units) is the standard unit IBM uses in Resourcelink pricing tables to determine z/OS software costs under Container Pricing on the z14. Monthly peak MSU consumption - specifically the four-hour rolling average peak - is what drives the license charge calculations published in those tables.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. MIPS - Millions of Instructions Per Second measures raw processor speed and was used in older pricing models, but IBM replaced it with MSU for software pricing.
• B. LSPR - Large System Performance Reference is a set of IBM benchmarks for comparing processor capacity across models; it's a reference tool, not a pricing unit.
• C. ITRR - Not a standard unit within IBM's Resourcelink pricing framework; it's a distractor with no role in Container Pricing calculations.

Memory tip: Think "MSU = Monthly Software Usage" - it's the software billing meter, while MIPS measures hardware speed. When a question mentions Resourcelink tables and software pricing (z/OS, middleware, etc.), the answer is almost always MSU.

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