RE: Software Licensing for HA systems

What I mean is to be able to remove one, and have OS400 mark it internally
as 'removed', or 'disabled', so that it can never be used again. The vendor
would have to provide a new key (using vendor data). But the old key would
not be valid anymore. I submitted this to IBM years ago.

Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
775-851-2900 

http://www.bytware.com



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:08 PM
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Subject: RE: Software Licensing for HA systems


Caution,  If you can remove them, someone can re-install and get another
grace period without a full scratch. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of QSCANFSCTL
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:36 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Software Licensing for HA systems

If software vendors would use the OS/400 license management APIs, and
give a
grace period to their product definitions, the product will be able to
handle a typical DR failover with no licensing issues.... 

Overall, I'm pretty happy with them. I wish there was a way to remove a
license key, so that software transfers weren't such a PITA -- ARE YOU
LISTENING IBM?