Re: Starting up old machine

["Mike McClain" <wmmcclain@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,
The more I thought about things, I remembered that. If I can't find, will
call key center. Thanks

On 8/6/06, kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Each release has it's own set of keys, so V4R5 keys won't work for any
> other release.  "If" you didn't transfer the licenses to another machine
> and you are the owner that owned it at V5R2 then you should be able to
> call the IBM Keys Center at 800-446-8989 and request the keys.
>
> If you did transfer the licenses then the only license valid on the system
> is for the OS.
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> List,
> Here's my situation, any advise?
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> Have an older 170 that was at v5r2 when we took it out of service.
> Originally, we were going to dispose of it  so I scratched the disks as
> describe by IBM to init to all 00.
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> Well we didn't get rid of it so now I want to bring back to life as
> test/development/play machine.
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> I loaded v5r2 from cd and applied the lisc. keys that I had from the
> original install back at v4r5 thinking that this would get it. Well it
> doesn't I think because this guy was upgraded from v4r5 to v5r2. I still
> get
> the grace period messages during IPL and when I do wrklicinf it appears
> that
> there is not a valid key for my products.
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> Here's the question, do I need to scratch again and load v4r5 from cd,
> apply
> the v4r5 keys, then upgrade to v5r2 again? OR, do you think my BP can get
> me
> new keys valid for v5r2 for this box?
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> Any thoughts appreciated.
> Thanks
> Mike
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