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  3. September 2006

Re: RMVLICKEY

If I remember well, the licence is associated to the serial number of the computer. You may have to ask your sales person. 

Pete Clifford wrote:


IBM states (in the help text and Info Center for the RMVLICKEY command):
"Removing license information from the repository does not affect installed licenses. Any license that is currently being used to access the product on this system remains valid and usable."
As far as I can make out, if you uninstall a licensed program (with DLTLICPGM) and remove the license key for that product from the repository (with RMVLICKEY), this does NOT actually get rid of the license from the repository. It might not show up on WRKLICINF, but its still there, and if you subsequently reinstall the product (with RSTLICPGM), that product will work just fine and will continue to consider itself licensed.
So, my question is: is there any way of deleting a license from a system so that the product is no longer usable? If not, how does this affect the licensing of software when a system is put on to the second-user market? Doesn't this mean that there is really no way of transferring a license from system A to system B, because there's actually no way of effectively deleting the license from system A? 

Am I missing something?

Pete

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