RE: "TigerTools Says It Can Remove OS/400 Governors"

David wrote:

> Does IBM define what is batch and what is interactive in the license
> agreement?  Is a job that is served by a batch server, by definition
> batch? Is an interaction with a web user a batch or an interactive job?

Seems to be simply a job that uses the 5250 (green screen) data stream.

> Ed's "official" IBM comments seem to say that PKZIP (activates DASD
> capacity) is prohibted unless it is authorized from IBM.  What about
> if someone sells a optimized compiler?

Tricky, isn't it? It seems to me IBM have made this situation more or less
inevitable by their caginess over what CFINT really is. Whatever the fine
print in the licence says they give the impression that you are buying a
machine with a certain hardware limit and CFINT is some kind of symptom of
that limit being approached. If OTOH they explicitly told customers the
machine's interactive performance was limited by a software governor, and
that not intentionally disabling the governor was a condition of the
licence the issue would be clear.

Dave...

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