Re: IBM i software keys for new P9

> Yes, the good old days when [The Internal Revenue Service] (NOT IBM) allowed you to MES to a new system, keeping your old system serial number, thus no key changes, MES days are gone.

Note the edit there. It's not IBM It's the IRS that limits this. It has everything to do with the value of the asset and the amount of value retained in the upgrade. Today the retained value often is exactly $0 and even when you keep a bunch of disk drives drawers and cards it's a very small percentage of the value, usually less then 10%.

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On 12/5/2018 12:08 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Yes, the good old days when IBM allowed you to MES to a new system, keeping your old system serial number, thus no key changes.
MES days are gone, same serial number for 15 years, 4 MES, 4 box swaps.

The 9406 AS/400 RISC Series Processor was our original 510. (mid 90's)
The 9406 System Unit MES # 19262 was the 510 to 640 upgrade. (2nd quarter 98)
The 9406 System Unit MES # N26616 was the 640 to 830 upgrade. (2nd quarter 2001)
The 9406 System Unit MES # was the 830 to 550 upgrade ( 4th quarter 2005)

Now, every new machine is a new serial number with new keys.

Paul