If you are specifically talking about CA products, I would call the Support Desk and ask for Temporary Keys for the D/R test. I'm not a lawyer; but I don't believe that using zVM to fake the serial number is a valid license. LMP keys are usually made available within 24 hours (or less). You can also request them at Support-Connect. When I worked for large Banks and Utilities, the D/R preparation included contacting all of our ISVs for the appropriate and valid use of their products for D/R. This made for a much smoother D/R test.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 SYSN 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Software keys under VM at DR In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/06/2005 at 03:45 PM, "Johnston, Robert E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM >BCRS) and I have a question about vendor "software keys" when running >z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xxxxxx in the VM >directory is supposed to take care of the CPU serial number matching >our real CPU serial number, in the IBM BCRS doc they mention checking >with vendors to ensure there are no licensing issues. Right: just because it works doesn't mean that the license allows it. I'd check with your legal staff. Try to get a contract modification explicitly allowing it. >I am mostly concerned with the keys for our CA products. The last time I dealt with them they were unable to provide keys within the promised time. The only way that we were able to get up was to run under VM with our home CPUID. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
