RE: v5r2 license expiration

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andy
Nolen-Parkhouse
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:37 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: v5r2 license expiration


Andy wrote:

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?

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It looks like this office of the company is shutting down by early next
year,
so paying for v5r2 on the test system is not going to happen. ( thats the
innocent part. When we loaded v5r2, we did not know for sure we were being
shut down )

We would like to restore to v5r1, but with the tape drive no longer working
because of v5r2, that option is out.

And I doubt we know the dst password on the expired system.

so, hopefully, the ipl from v5r1 cd option works ...

thanks a lot,

Steve