The Passport Advantage agreement is a quiet anchor in the IBM estate. Its construct shapes the renewal, the bundle, the PVU computation and the audit defence. This 22-page paper sets out the buyer position on Passport Advantage entitlement, ILMT health, sub-capacity reporting and the audit response protocol. Written from the buyer’s side. None of it carries reseller margin or referral fee.
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The IBM Licence Metric Tool is positioned in the Passport Advantage Sub-Capacity Licensing terms as the condition precedent for the sub-capacity entitlement. That language matters. Without an ILMT deployment in proper health, the buyer reverts to the full-capacity position; the PVU count moves from the partition allocation to the underlying physical capacity; and the bill moves with it. The arithmetic difference between the two positions can run into millions on a single product.
IBM’s position is set out in writing. The ILMT deployment must be live within ninety days of first eligible deployment, the agent coverage must extend across the partitions that carry the sub-capacity product, the reporting cadence must run at thirty-day intervals and the quarterly snapshots must be retained for the audit window. Where any of these conditions falls away, the buyer carries audit exposure at the full-capacity computation.
This paper covers the ILMT deployment posture Admodum applies inside the Passport Advantage estate: the agent coverage discipline, the report retention regime, the quarterly review and the remediation protocol where ILMT health has lapsed.
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The Admodum IBM practice closes Passport Advantage renewals and defends sub-capacity audits inside the Renewal Programme and the Audit Defence Programme. Engagements run as fixed fee, contingency or annual retainer.