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You should check annually that all server operating system or a virtualization technology in your network are still eligible for IBM subcapacity reporting and are on the list of officialy technologies supported by License Metric Tool.

If not you have a compliance issue. IBM will expect that in 180 days you have moved to a newer version of such a technology.

The list of platforms IBM plan to removal is maintained on the IBM Support website here.

Below is an extract from the website as well as the most important dates.

TechnologyEnd of support by vendorPlanned removal from the list of technologies eligible for subcapacity licensing and supported by License Metric Tool
Debian 75/31/2018End of 1Q 2020
IBM i 5.x9/30/2013
RHEL 5 x863/31/2017
RHEV 3.x9/30/2017
Solaris 101/30/2018
Ubuntu 124/28/2017
Ubuntu 144/30/2019
vSphere 5.x9/19/2018
Windows Vista4/13/2010
XenServer 6.x6/30/2018
IBM i 6.19/30/2018End of 2Q 2020
Windows 20081/14/2020End of 3Q 2020
Windows 2008 R21/14/2020
Windows 71/14/2020

 

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