Re: Software Licensing for HA systems

You change the serial number within Dedicated Service
Tools.  However, there are implications of changing
it, especially if the system is partitioned, as it
"invalidates" your LPAR config - (on iSeries, haven't
tried it on i5).

Regards

Pat



--- Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK Al,  I'll bite...
> 
> How do you change a system's serial number?  I
> thought  that was an 
> "indelible" part of the hardware.
> 
> Or perhaps it is one of those "I could tell ya but
> I'd have to kill ya" 
> kind of questions.......
> 
> Pete Helgren
> 
> 
> Al Barsa wrote:
> 
> >The World Trade Center bombing (1993) had me
> recovering a firm that needed
> >to run payroll that weekend.  (The bombing occurred
> on Friday, February 26,
> >1993.)
> >
> >I was recovering the customer at a DR site, and
> their H/R vendor had no
> >method of getting me a software key over the
> weekend.
> >
> >So I changed the system serial number, and we ran
> payroll.
> >
> >IBM was really mad at me!
> >
> >Al
> >
> >Al Barsa, Jr.
> >Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
> >
> >400>390
> >
> >"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
> >e gads
> >
> >Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
> >
> >914-251-1234
> >914-251-9406 fax
> >
> >http://www.barsaconsulting.com
> >http://www.taatool.com
> >http://www.as400connection.com
> >
> >
> >
> >                                                   
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> >Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>If the vendors can give us some assurance that we
> will be able to obtain
> >>the temporary key in a reasonable time frame, then
> that is the direction
> >>we will be going.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >    Of course, be sure to define "reasonable" and
> get it in writing.  If
> >your business is a 24 x 7 operation or works
> multiple shifts or etc.,
> >you want to be able to get that key at, say, 0300
> on Sunday.
> >
> >             * Jerry C. Adams
> >*iSeries Programmer/Analyst
> >B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
> >voice
> >             615.995.7024
> >fax
> >             615.995.1201
> >email
> >             jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
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Patricia Garrity
Garrity Systems, Inc

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