Re: How to tell when an OS was installed?

John - for people who have the joy of dealing with the License Key Center
(or whatever
it is called) - the license may be up to 70 days after install.
Long ago someone posted that the object change date (not create date) of
QSS1MRI in QUSRSYS type *DTAARA  is a good date for install or upgrade, and
is not
updated by ptf. It contains the actual release VxRxMxx and the language id.
I suppose if you changed language id on a machine it would have it's change
date updated.
For a preloaded i5 machine I just checked, the change date is when IBM
preloaded the OS,
not when I installed. The WRKLICINF is also when IBM preloaded.
To get my actual install date, I can see the restore dates when I loaded the
machine with user profiles, data, etc.
Jim Franz



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Subject: RE: How to tell when an OS was installed?


> Actually, I was focusing more on the last time the license itself was
> updated since that's typically done immediately post-upgrade:
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> USAGE LIMIT . . . . . . . . :   *NOMAX
> LAST UPDATE . . . . . . . . :   06/22/02  10:31:52
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> Your auditors are right on your WRKLICINF.  My peak usage is prior to my
> last update.
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> What would be an IBM-official, or at least an this-works-for-auditors
> method of verifying the date of the last OS install/upgrade?  Not
> restore, but install/upgrade.  'Upgrade' means V4R5 to V5R1 type of
> stuff and not applying a PTF.  GO LICPGM/50 doesn't go back far enough.
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> The best I've been able to do so far is the WRKLICINF display screen for
> 5722SS1, but the auditors don't really feel it's representative.
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