Re: CPF3DE5 - Software agreements have not been accepted.

Hi, Bryan and Rob:

And, it must be so. Why? Well, think of it this way ...

The "accept a license agreement" API was put in there "to make the lawyers happy" (either IBM lawyers, or the lawyers of ISVs that are using the IBM licensing APIs.) Those same lawyers would most likely be none too happy if anyone could just call some API with a parameter like "*ALL/*ALL" and thereby bypass any or all subsequent display and "acceptance" of their license agreements for each software product.

There is a way you can "pre-load" all of the IBM software agreements when upgrading or installing a new release, and then you can accept all of them, in advance, so it does not "slow down" the actual software installation or upgrade process, but you still have to view each unique agreement and press the Function Key to "Accept" them, at some point.
Of course, they have no way of knowing if you actually READ or UNDERSTOOD the agreement, let alone, even bothered to press PageDown or RollUp a sufficient number of times to get to the end. (You can just press F14=Accept immediately.) :-o

(I suspect these license agreements are no more enforceable than those "shrink-wrap" licenses that were popular a few years ago.)

Regards,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Bryan Dietz wrote:

Reading the info center page, the API does not seem to allow for a *ANY/*ALL option.

Bryan


rob@xxxxxxxxx said the following on 6/4/2008 11:36 AM:

I posted this more as a reference for others who may have the issue.

Can you call that API and tell it to just freaking accept them all?

Rob Berendt