RE: Security Code

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Al Barsa
>
> For our product, APRM, we used the IBM license management code,
> and I think
> that at the end of the day, this was a win/win strategy.  It was
> painful to
> do and master, but then install is accomplished by RSTLICPGM, and it shows
> on option 10 from GO LICPGM.
>
> We entered into discussions with IBM as to the name of the library, and
> they urged us not to use a library name starting with a Q.  They pointed
> out that they are sometimes not in control of their own library naming
> standards, however I came up with a name they would never use,  QBARSA.
>
> Al

One of the downfalls about using IBM's LMC that I've heard from a colleague
is that nothing prevents someone from deleting the "licensed program" from
the system at the end of the trial period and re-installing it to start a
new trial period.  He said he's seen this with one third-party product with
a 30-day trial period.  Is this true?  If so, it seems that you'd have to
hard-code a date in the product and generate new object code every day for
download.  And, if you're going that far, maybe the download page should
just require that the system serial number be entered so that it can be
encoded for each system.

Carl, if you're sharing your technique, but not posting it to the list at
large, I'd be interested in learning about it.

db