I unfortunately have come across companies that do defeat serial number issues.
I worked for an investment/insurance/financial management + product firm where, to "save" costs, Syncsort maintenance was dropped and the system programmer was told to figure out how to bypass the check - which he did. It ran that way for several years, until the company was dragged kicking and screaming into the 1980's with MVS/XA (they had been an VS1 shop). Since the copy of Syncsort wouldn't run in MVS/XA, the company coughed up back maintenance + extra costs to get legal again. I believe this company no longer exists as an independent concern, although I have no idea what actually happened to them (sometime after 1990, the name came off the 10 story building where they were headquartered). Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Thursday 09 June 2005 14:35 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Software keys under VM at DR > > > At one place I worked we had a "dr" site. IT was NOT a DR > site it was a duplicate site that ran production on a > daily/nightly basis. > > The vendors were told it was a DR site. In the 10 years I > worked there a disaster was declared only once and a few > people were shipped off to there. > The changed their mind about it being a disaster about 1 hour > after the plane took off. > > The point is that we ran duplicate jobs and theoretically at > any point in the production cycle the other site could pick > up when the connection was broken. > > We ran assorted vendors (including FDR) all with the idea > that this was a DR site. IBM turned a blind eye to it even > though I repeatedly let them know it really wasn't. They > wanted the business. I just shook my head and wanted out of > the mess as I was sure I would be involved with any law suit. > > We had fun with the vendors that were cpu serial number > enabled. I tried not to get involved with that area and > washed my hands of the whole mess. I brought this up to my > management several times and was told to shut up. > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
