Re: OS400 license keys

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/09/2006, at 4:51 AM, Jerry Draper wrote:

> Are the OS400 license keys saved when we do a savsys21?

Yes.

> If so, are they in a file that we can restore separately?

The file is QALZALIC in QSYS but I suspect there is a link between this 
file and "other stuff" so I'm not sure if a restore of just the file 
will work. I guess it might be possible but really not necessary. A 
proper system restore should restore the licence key repository too.

> We had an AS400 melt down and did a complete restore to a DR box.
>
> We applied license keys to the DR box because it has a different serial
> number to avoid the "70 days left" message that annoyingly breaks at
> inopportune times (like a savsys21 - until we did a <brkmsg *hold>)

Those would be completely different licence keys due to the different 
serial number. They will have no effect on your original system keys. 
If you restored your DR system from the original save tapes then the DR 
system will also have the keys for your original system. The licence 
key repository is quite capable of holding licence keys for many 
systems and products simultaneously.

> Now we are going back to the original box.  Will the keys on the
> original tape still be applicable if we do an IPL D fromt that tape?

Yes.

> IBM says that they can't generate keys for us because we are on V5R1 
> and
> don't have a SWMA.

They could but they don't want to. However you would have received 
licence keys for 510 in a pink and black striped folder which you 
should have kept somewhere safe so you could reapply the keys if 
necessary without bothering IBM. Even if they came via e-mail they 
should have been printed and filed safely.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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