Re: Software Licensing for HA systems

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depending on the vintage of the hardware and the release of the software
there are various things that you can do.

I'm reticent to describe exactly what I did, because if you did it, you
might hurt yourself badly.

Essentially I patched the system value (you know, I know something about
those things).  That method is only good until the next IPL.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads

Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

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OK Al,  I'll bite...

How do you change a system's serial number?  I thought  that was an
"indelible" part of the hardware.

Or perhaps it is one of those "I could tell ya but I'd have to kill ya"
kind of questions.......

Pete Helgren


Al Barsa wrote:

>The World Trade Center bombing (1993) had me recovering a firm that needed
>to run payroll that weekend.  (The bombing occurred on Friday, February
26,
>1993.)
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>I was recovering the customer at a DR site, and their H/R vendor had no
>method of getting me a software key over the weekend.
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>So I changed the system serial number, and we ran payroll.
>
>IBM was really mad at me!
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>Al
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>Al Barsa, Jr.
>Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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>"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
>e gads
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>Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
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>914-251-1234
>914-251-9406 fax
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>http://www.barsaconsulting.com
>http://www.taatool.com
>http://www.as400connection.com
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>Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>If the vendors can give us some assurance that we will be able to obtain
>>the temporary key in a reasonable time frame, then that is the direction
>>we will be going.
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>your business is a 24 x 7 operation or works multiple shifts or etc.,
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