What's the formulae to calculate the Dynatrace license for z/os mainframe monitoring?

[Chanti]

Hi All,

Can anyone provide me how Dynatrace calculates the license for Z/OS Mainframe monitoring? What are the prerequisite needed to calculate license. Is that consumption of MSU hours for all LPARs alone sufficient to calculate?  Please help to estimate the license report.

[t_pawlak · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Mainframe Monitoring does not consume Host Units.
You can calculate it, using this formula:

Per Lpar

MSU-hours = sum of actually consumed MSUs over monitoring time

Total Dynatrace consumption:

Total MSU-hours = sum of MSU-hours across all monitored LPARs

Based on SMF Type 70 Subtype 1

15-minute billing granularity

Any activity within a 15-minute interval is fully billed

Only active monitoring time is charged

How to estimate it:

• IBM SCRT report
  • Section C5 – reporting period
  • Section N7 – Total MSU Consumed per LPAR
• List of monitored LPARs
• Reporting period length (usually 1 month).
  

All details you can find here:
https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/license/capabilities/app-infra-observability/mainframe

Of course, you can track consumption in Dynatrace as well:

builtin:billing.mainframe_monitoring.usage

[Chanti]

Hey Pawlak,

That's perfect. But What are the prerequisite we needed here to calculate license? Having data of peak consumption of MSU hours alone sufficient to calculate license?