VisualAge PL/I for Windows V2.1.1 and VisualAge COBOL for Windows V3.0.7 are both still available for download through IBM's electronic delivery system. (I just checked.) If you have a valid license you're all set. The old license part numbers were D5AK6LL for VisualAge PL/I Enterprise and D5A1LLL for VisualAge COBOL Enterprise. They were withdrawn from marketing in 2006. If those part numbers are recorded in your Passport Advantage purchase history, you should be able to (re)download the products to use them consistent with your licensing.
If you need new licenses then you'll have to speak with your "friendly IBM representative" as they say. The mechanics would probably involve getting a license for Rational Developer for zEnterprise (RDz), the successor product for both, and then getting special delivery-entitled for those two part numbers I just mentioned. My understanding is that's possible, although I don't speak for IBM. Clark Morris writes: >The rules may not be the same for the MSDOS, Windows, Linux, OS2, AIX, >etc. VisualAge products. Licensed software is licensed software. While there are occasional interesting variations that we tend to focus on, the "big issues" are the same. The above mentioned VisualAge products are IBM Passport Advantage products licensed according to the IBM International Program License Agreement. The IPLA is the same license agreement applicable to, say, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for z/OS. Having media isn't proof of license -- and hasn't been for about two decades. Your license purchase record is. I'm barely old enough to remember when IBM would license a large quantity of software to a major customer and then proceed to ship that customer trucks full of boxed software, each containing one valuable license card for each machine or for each user. Whereupon the major customer would hire somebody to rip open the boxes, carefully pull out the license card, and then file those license cards away somewhere. Imagine doing that 10,000 or more times, and imagine all the garbage. Then, when that customer wanted to upgrade, they'd dutifully provide IBM with their stacks of license cards to get the upgrade price on the next version, and IBM would repeat the same "process." Thankfully those days are long gone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
