RE: [Bulk] Re: AS/400e installation when hard disks are wiped

Ahhh.  The good old days of MULIC & FULIC tapes.  Don't forget about the little "stick" that was needed, as I recall, to get into DST.


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group
<http://www.ocean400.org>


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> Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: AS/400e installation when hard disks are wiped
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:46:32 -0400
>
> Hi, Rob:
>
> You may be thinking of the "System password" -- when someone changed
> (upgraded or replaced) certain critical hardware resources, the system
> required entering a new "system password" -- usually the CE installing
> or repairing the hardware would take care of this.
>
> As for license keys and their enforcement:
>
> IBM APIs dealing with license keys have been in OS/400 since at least V2R3.
>
> Prior to Version 4, most IBM LPPs with software licenses were not
> strictly enforced by the software.
>
> On CISC IMPI AS/400 systems, you had to "order" all software and IBM
> would "cut a tape" containing only those LPPs you actually ordered.
>
> When IBM migrated AS/400e to RISC they started using CDs for software
> distribution, so this all changed. IBM created a "master set" of CDs
> that contained the most commonly ordered LPPs on those CDs (so they
> could be "mass produced").
>
> Recall that during the lifetime of Version 3, some LPPs were using
> license keys, but mostly for products like Client Access that had "per
> user" or "per seat" licensing options.
>
> With V4R1, IBM began to enforce the licenses using license keys across
> the board. However, the "roll-out" was gradual. First, the "base" OS
> itself required a key. Then, one by one, each of the various LPPs that
> were keyed started to enforce the license.
>
> t may not have been until V4R3 or V4R4 that most "keyed" LPPs actually
> checked and enforced the licenses.
>
> So, by V5R1, most all LPPs that are "keyed" require a valid license key
> to operate beyond the "grace" period (usually 70 days).
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark S. Waterbury
>
>> On 5/13/2015 1:24 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I remember from prior to V5 days a system processor key or some such
>> animal.
>>
>>
>> Rob Berendt
>
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