Re: SWMA Keys... Sending on CD/DVD now? -- MIDRANGE-L

I didn't get keys on CD when I renewed, just the mysterious Websphere and Web enablement CD's. Never understood why I get those on CD/DVD when I renew when I can download from ESS. In any case, my keys were available from ESS and I took the "Install" option and was done.

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On 8/29/2022 9:50 AM, Brad Stone wrote:

I have a feeling it's because I have a dev account. So I need to renew
them once a year.

I get a CL in a doc file (doc file? lol) from ESS when I download that
looks like this for each offering:

ADDLICKEY PRDID(5770QU1)
LICTRM(V7R4M0)
FEATURE(5050)
SERIAL(*LOCAL)
PRCGRP(*ANY)
LICKEY(xxxxx xxxx xxxx)
USGLMT(*NOMAX)
EXPDATE(2023-09-21)
VNDDTA(*NONE)

First I open it in Notepad++ and replace ) with ) + (so it's a valid CL
command).
Then I replace (*NONE) + with (*NONE) (so the last CL parm doesn't have the
plus on it).
Then I replace the date with 2023-09-21 with '09/21/2023' (the date format
they send doesn't seem to work for me).

I upload, compile and run. I've got it down to about 2 minutes.. haha.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:46 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just for grins I downloaded my keys. Mine are all *PERM. Why do you have
expiration dates?

How do you use the parameter *LICKEYFILE on ADDLICKEY?

Instead of a CL you could do this:
Paste it into Run SQL scripts

Search and replace ADDLICKEY with CL: ADDLICKEY

Search and replace VNDDTA(*NONE) with VNDDTA(*NONE);

Run All

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So is IBM now sending keys on a CD/DVD now? I just got a CD from IBM via
UPS this morning.

No real instructions.. just "thanks for your IBM order".

If it is the keys, is it easier to use than downloading them from ESS,
changing the date formats and using a CL?

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