RE: Fulic/Mulic Solutions -- MIDRANGE-L

Well "technically" the lawyers (& IBM Support) consider the LIC as part 
of hardware (in the past at least, in the US, if you were not on IBM 
hardware support you were supposed to obtain LIC PTF's through whoever 
was providing you support), but in actual fact your description is 
correct.

MULIC/FULIC is what prevents you from obtaining a faster processor card 
(that's in a higher software charge tier) and installing it on your 
machine, unless of course whoever sells you the faster processor card 
also gives you an (ILLEGAL !) copy of the MULIC/FULIC for it too.  It 
can also be needed if you lose the load/source disk drive and have to 
reload.



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-----Original Message-----
From:   Pytel, Alexei [SMTP:pytela1@midas-kapiti.com]
Sent:   Thursday, October 22, 1998 6:04 AM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RE: Fulic/Mulic Solutions


Please, do not confuse MULIC and LIC.
These are completely different things.

MULIC is part of hardware. It's processor type unique, but it does not
depend on S/N or OS/400 version number.

LIC is software. It's part of operating system and therefore is
different between versions/releases. It is part of operating system
which lies below MI. It depends on version/release of operating system,
but does not depend on processor type in one family.

MULIC comes on a separate tape. It's loaded once on a system load
source. It's not influcenced by any PTFs. If you upgrade OS/400 to new
version/release, you do not need new MULIC and you do not need to re  
load
old one (even at scratch install). MULIC is never saved and it is not
shipped on any distribution tapes.

LIC is on the same tape(s), as the rest of operating system. It's 
loaded
every time you change version/release of operating system. It is option
5xxx-999 when looking at installed programs or PTF information. It's
PTFed quite extensively. It is saved by SAVSTG and SAVSYS commands. 
It's
contained on any distribution tape (including ones you may create on
your system).

All above relates only to CISC. RISC processors does not require MULIC.
But LIC is certainly present on RISC systems. It is called SLIC and is
very different from LIC for CISC relases. LIC is hardware architecture
dependent. This is what insulates layers above MI from hardware
differences.

    Best regards,

          Alexei Pytel

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