Re: IBM i VMs without serial numbers?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any idea how this will affect the _MATMATR1 API?  It's what I used to get
the logical serial, serial number.

What about the system value for QMODEL?

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:23 AM Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> IBM recently introduced virtual serial #’s. Each LPAR can be assigned a
> virtual serial # which is different than the physical server serial #.
>
> All IBM I systems will have a serial number.
>
> From: Brad Stone<mailto:bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 10:20 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<mailto:
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IBM i VMs without serial numbers?
>
> I have a customer inquiring how licensing will work on a cloud system that
> they claim may move from VM to VM and they don't have serial numbers.
>
> Is this the case?  For example, can some systems not have logical serial
> numbers, and/or serial numbers and/or model numbers?
>
> I have many customers on the cloud and this is the first I've heard of
> this.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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