Re: as400 - 520

["Doug Palme" <DPalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought and correct me if I am wrong, but at V5R1 all license keys for 
the OS went with the machine and not the owner.......





From:
Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:
07/09/2009 08:07 PM
Subject:
Re: as400 - 520



Sanjivji wrote:

> Planning to buy a model As400 -520  from ebay for personal use 
>
> It does not come with os400 lickey..so does that mean that I will have 
to
> reload os400 every 70 days ?

Sanjivji:

Yes and no. What we've seen is that you can reload the OS numerous 
times and that you have to reload if you need to IPL after license 
grace period expires. The system doesn't just come to a stop after 
70 days, but you don't want to have daily power up/down cycles. A 
power interruption is trouble.

We have used one _very_ test system built from many spare parts and 
named SPAREPTS. We used it for stuff that we thought _might_ destroy 
a system (and sometimes did). It would obviously never be used for 
production.

Tom Liotta