I seem to remember a couple of products that looked at all 12 characters in the CPU serial number (I think they checked the actual hex machine code). These products were a pain at DR with VM giving us a virtual 5 digit CPU. We usually had to just get a temp key and the product worked.
I think the product that failed was Platinum products for DB2 - but it has been LONG ago. Now days most just look at the 5 digit serial number - and most will also work for a short time even if the CPU serial number is wrong. C. Todd Burrell PMP, MCSE 2003 Lead z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 723-2017 (Cell) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Real CPU Id >Product licensing on a per CPC basis. We don't care how many CPs. Just one >license per CPC. Okay, I think. I don't understand your response, but it's none of my business. But, I've worked with CPC licences, and the last five digits were all I had to worry about, in most cases. And, all LPARS had them in the logical serial numbers. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
