If an order is not received within a reasonable time frame, IBM may directly invoice the customer for the upgrade associated with the activation. Customer decides on the number of Capacity Upgrade on Demand processors they wish to activate Customer contacts IBM Business Partner or IBM and informs them that they wish to place an order IBM Business Partner or IBM places an order using a feature code conversion to indicate that the customer has activated additional processors. No hardware is shipped as a result of this feature code order. The feature code conversion is utilized to generate the invoice to the customer, reflect new maintenance pricing, and to reflect the proper machine installed configuration within IBM internal systems. IBM Capacity Upgrade on Demand Project Office tracks the activation systems messages and reconciles with feature code orders for activated processors.
Some software providers base their licensing fees on the number of processors installed on a server.
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