And the question is, what will ISV's do when Partition Migration comes to IBM i? I think when applications become as portable as Windows, Linux and AIX VM's are today, somebody is going to have to come up with a new license key model. Especially IBM.
Patrick Bingham
Power Systems Solutions Engineer
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - System i Solutions
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of nicolas
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:06 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Serial Numbers?
Hi,
[off topic]
I can't answer to your question, but I can warn you about something you are maybe not aware about serial numbers.
We use a home-made license management software that relies on serial numbers, specially on the "uniqueness".
So we had the rule 1 SN = 1 customer.
We knew that rule could be broken because of second hand machines.
But last year we had to face another case 3 times : IBM Test Center And seeing the growing number of customers that use this service, it seems that the case will appear more often .
nicolas
Rich Loeber a écrit :
Ever since I can remember, serial numbers on the i have been 7 character
codes that start with either 10, 44 or 65. The first two digits indicate
where the system was manufactured, 10 being in the US, 44 in Europe and 65
in Asia.
Recently, a customer contacted me to report that they are moving to a new
blade server and the serial number starts with '06'. They don't actually
have the new systems installed yet, and I have seen in the past where
customers have reported unusual serial numbers to me in advance only to
find out that the old 10/44/65 rule was still in effect when they system
was installed and they checked the QSRLNBR system value.
My question, is '06' a valid new prefix for blade servers running i/OS?
Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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