RE: Software Licensing for HA systems

If software vendors would use the OS/400 license management APIs, and give a
grace period to their product definitions, the product will be able to
handle a typical DR failover with no licensing issues. The product runs
without a license key for a grace period. After the grace period the vendor
can extend the grace period if necessary. This eliminates the need to worry
about license keys at Sunday 3am, because the customer will have had 30 days
(or whatever grace period the vendor uses, in IBMs case it is 70 days), to
obtain license keys during normal business hours. No problem.

For advanced testing, customers can request license keys for the DR system
that will expire at some mutually agreeable date/time.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with them. I wish there was a way to remove a
license key, so that software transfers weren't such a PITA -- ARE YOU
LISTENING IBM?

Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
775-851-2900 

http://www.bytware.com



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:34 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Software Licensing for HA systems


> I was recovering the customer at a DR site, and their H/R 
> vendor had no method of getting me a software key over the weekend.
> 
> So I changed the system serial number, and we ran payroll.

ROTFL!

> IBM was really mad at me!

TFB.