a few of our s/w products drill down to the model number
not just the serial #, but all that could not be done prior had grace
periods
or so called emerg keys
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Kelman, Tom wrote:
> In 35 years in the business, first as a MVS sys prog and now as a
> performance analyst, I've never seen anyway to pretest the software
> keys. I'd be interested if anyone knows of one.
>
z/VM can set a guest's CPU serial to any value. This works to "fool"
only a subset of software.
AFAIK, the CPU type cannot be changed under z/VM.
And, these days much software looks at the output of STSI (or CSRSI),
QVS, LPDAT, DIAG 204, and other sources to get capacity information.
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