Re: Cleaning up an old system

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

- Record all IBM supplied software found in DSPSFWRSC.  Match that with 
what you discover in GO LICPGM option 10.
- Make sure you have all the necessary license keys found in WRKLICINF. 
There is an IBM website to get/print/download your license keys.
- Make sure you have the most current cume and groups.

Initialize your system and load that all back on is about the safest way. 
Let's look at it from a customer perspective - would you want to receive a 
used system for your use any other way?

The toughest part is the WRKLICINF.  And if you lost your install CD's and 
you are running an obsolete version and can't get it anymore that would 
also be a concern.

There is stuff in there not in libraries which still may be confidential 
information to you.  Examples include, but are not limited to:
- validation lists
- stuff in the IFS outside of /QSYS.LIB

If I was your BP, yes I would like a system with at least enough on it 
that I could fire it up, verify that it works and poke around in SST.  I 
wouldn't care about the 70 day expiration (if I was real good in my 
inventory turns).
And, if it is running obsolete software that you cannot get keys for 
anymore and they were hoping to sell it to someone with keys (and if that 
is legal) then I might want the keys also.
(Whenever you apply keys when you do a release upgrade why not print them 
off and tape them into the back cover for just such a situation?)


Rob Berendt