RE: v5r2 license expiration

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

I've had a few customers at previous releases come close to losing OS/400
due to lack of attention to licensing.  The problem was described more in
terms of a system password rather than a license key, but the end result
was the same.  70 days after installation, the system would not IPL.  So
no, this is not new with V5R2.

Yes, DST could be used to reinitialize your hard drives so that you could
scratch install from CD.  I understand what you write about innocently
installing something you haven't paid for, I've done that also.  Now that
you're no longer innocent, what does your company intend to do?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Subject: v5r2 license expiration
> 
> we pretty much innocently installed v5r2 on both the test and
> production
> system at an account of mine. Turns out that v5r2 is paid for on the
> production system, but due to a lot of indecision it is not paid for on
> the
> test system.
> 
> now 45 or so days later, the test system displays a screeen saying to
> enter
> the license key or be happy with a system that does not ipl.
> 
> Is this new to v5r2?  Does v5r1 have such a drop dead expiration date?
> 
> I've have tried a little bit to set the front panel to "04=ipl from cd"
> to
> reinstall either v5r1 or v5r2, but I cant up arrow/down arrow to 04.
> 
> During a manual ipl, the panel that asks if you want to continue the
> ipl or
> start dst does display.  Can dst be used to clear the disk and do
> another
> install?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Steve