> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Peterson > > To the best of my knowledge, the sole requirement for RECEIVE ORDER is a > certificate issued by the ShopzSeries web site. > > What happens when you go to ShopzSeries, select Create New Order, and then > under "z/OS - Service" you select "Service certificate"? > > That certificate, when installed on your z/OS system, is what makes RECEIVE > ORDER act like your userid in ShopzSeries, and allows your RECEIVE ORDER > batch job to interact with ShopzSeries (and IBM's back end systems) just > like your userid can interact with the ShopzSeries web site directly.
We do / have done all that already. > This entire process has absolutely no connection or relationship with > IBMLink. Or at least that's how I understand it. I hope that's the case, and is what I'm trying to verify. Our shop is in "serious cost-cutting" mode, and toward that end we're evaluating "downgrading" from SoftwareXcel Extended to either Basic, or Resolve. Aside from ordering "packaged" service (RSU, etc.) via ShopzSeries (and now RECEIVE ORDER), we've found we don't use any of the other "Extended" features. This document <http://www.vm.ibm.com/service/zmatrix.pdf> is what's causing us confusion and consternation, for it seems to imply that if we "downgrade" from Extended (aka Enterprise Edition), we would lose our entitlement to order "packaged" service via ShopzSeries (and by extension, via RECEIVE ORDER), even though ShopzSeries is not mentioned by name in that document. Sometimes it appears that even IBM doesn't know what IBM is talking about. :-( -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
