Re posting from: Timothy Sipples > Getting media is another question. IBM may not be able to supply > it, so you'll have to find it from another source. As long as you > have a valid license this is apparently OK. Most IBM software > doesn't have license keys, so no obstacle there.
The rest of Timothy's post is correct, but I need to clarify something from the paragraph quoted above. The IBM Customer Agreement (ICA) does not allow for the transfer of IBM's intellectual property from one customer to another. In simple words, you cannot acquire a program you do not have from someone else. (I'm not talking about the various remarketing or reseller agreements, obviously. I'm also only talking about ICA software, not IPLA software which is governed by a different license agreement with different terms.) "Withdrawn From Marketing" means we will no longer ship new media for the program, and it means we won't license the program to someone who does not have it. However if you do have it already and you copy it to another machine in your enterprise then we will create a new license for the software on the new machine. This has nothing to do with the metric under which the program is charged. The license is your permission to use the software on a particular machine. The "size" of the license, and thus the monthly charge, is a separate issue, usually determined by the size of the machine. -- David J. Chase, WW zSeries Software Sales -- -- IBM 18th Fl, 11 Madison Ave, NYC, NY 10010 -- -- 917-472-3346 - dchase at us.ibm.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
