In a message dated 2/17/2007 7:53:26 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The key point is it complicates an already complex environment! I can see a use for evaluation keys, but once the contract is signed, give me a permanent key, and use the >> It's a value assessment based on risk and functionality. Back in the olden days GRS just couldn't cut it in a JES3 environment especially. So we found MXI(now MIM) from Allen Systems. It was great in many respects. Down side was without electronic delivery or notification the contract office would get the updates a couple weeks in advance then it would trickle down to those who needed to apply them. The really perverse nature is that it would run past the end of expiration until it hit somebody's birthday-usually one of Medici's. Vlad the Impaler, Lizzie Borden also in the mix. As Bruno suggests it can be a motivator/incentive for software cleanup and review that probably should have been done months ago. That's our job. The ISV's want to protect intellectual property and trade secrets. That's there job. It complicates upgrades and DR but it's all doable with planning. My favorite vendor mechanism is IBI's. Keys required but they give a thirty day grace period for DR so usually can get in and get out before really have to do anything. The silver bullet would be a magic decoder ring on the HMC that says this can run and this can't. Doubt we'll see that anytime soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
