A while back (years) as part of an install we asked for a phone link for the "dial-home" on the machine. No - and take the dialing mechanism out of the machine. Say what ???.
Being a new customer site (a bank), they were accommodated. Later on they needed factory support for a hardware issue. The factory wanted to dial *into* the machine. This was (eventually) acceded to. So you just never know which way customers are going to jump. Shane ... On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:24:41 -0500 zMan wrote: > Uh. And then of course you'll find that your request (a) doesn't work > because it's blocked and (b) triggers IDS alarms, which you then get > to explain. Not something I'd recommend trying. > > > Actually, we had thought of putting in a module to request the key > > automatically, the code was fairly simple to request a new key from > > our server via TCP, and as long as the product had not expired the > > whole thing could be generated within a short transaction. When we > > floated it to some of our customers, they mostly responded back > > with "why?". > > > > So it wasn't worth the time to finish the code, but I kept the > > original prototype just in case we changed our minds later. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
