RE: Buying 170 - What's it worth, what's it missing?

Doesn't matter.  You can tranfer chargeable features of OS/400 and LPP's
to anyone you want.  It's only the base OS/400 license that stays with the
system and must be transferred with it.

...Neil





Trouble is that PDM & RPG are not part of SS1, they're their own thing.

At 03:17 PM 3/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I am installing 51 on a system today.  Here is the paragragh on
>transferability from a large stack of license info that came with 51
order:
>
>
>"The program is licensed for use only on the serial numbered machine on
>which the os/400 pgm is authorized ...  The pgm ( except for non-zero
priced
>features of 5722-ss1 ) may only be transferred with the machine to which
>os400 is initially authorized. The pgm ( except for non zero priced
features
>... ) may not be transferred independently of that machine.  This
>constitutes ibm's sole written consent to transfer any pgm covered by
this
>license info document.
>
>You may transfer the non zero priced features of 5722-ss1 independently
from
>5722-ss1 pgm to another system or to another party provided the PoE and
the
>License Info document from the non zero priced feature are also
transferred.
>
>When the as400 system is transferred, you must also transfer the
"software
>license key" sheet for os400. "
>
>
>So I can transfer ( sell ) licensed pgms like pdm and rpg ( "non zero
priced
>feature of 5722-ss1" ) to a system separate from os400 ( independent from
>5722-ss1 ) ??
>
>-Steve