License control

Do you need an actual date of expiration, or a duration of time in which
the product can be used?  If a duration, then you could use the OS/400
Software Product APIs to build your product as *KEYED compliance and then
specify a grace period (0 to 999 days) for the product.  You would not
need to specify a serial number in this situation.

This approach is intended for those "try-and-buy" type of situations.
For further information, see the Software Products chapter of the System
API Reference.

The above is not to say you cannot also use a specific date, just that
I don't know how off the top.

Bruce Vining

>
>Hi
>
>I'm looking for a way to include some sort of key license control into
>our application product. My first thought was of IBM's SystemView
>SystemManager. The problem is I have not got it installed, and judging
>by the documentation it only allows to license a product for a computer
>with a given SERIAL NUMBER. Is that true, or is there a workaround? We
>don't care about the serial number, what we need is for the product to
>just have an expiration date.
>Any ideas are welcome.
>
>Lo
>

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