Hi John, You are correct - a particular release of the Community License will run for 2 years, after which you will have to update to a newer version. It's unfortunate that we were forced to do this, but there were simply too many cases of people who were violating the terms of our Community License for us to continue our old approach.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, at 8:33 AM, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: > You need to check with Dovetail Technologies. IIRC with one of the newer > versions, V8?, there was an implication that "expired" after 2 years. I > took that to mean that if I had V8.0.0 it would run of 2 years, before the 2 > years was up you would have to go go V8.1.0 or what ever was current. I > never validated this. > > One thing is that starting with V8, the community version is release after > the Enterprise version, months after. So if you stay current with z/OS, you > may need to get Enterprise license. > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 20:48:22 +0000, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Hi list, > > > >What I hope is a quick question about CO:z sftp licensing. I know there are > >2 different license models, the community license and the enterprise > >license. The community one is a no charge license but support is via the > >community, whereas the enterprise (if that's that it's called) is an annual > >subscription and it includes formal support from the vendor. I had been > >under the impression that the community license is a perpetual license, in > >that we can just keep using it forever or until DoveTailed Technologies > >removes that option. I was told today that the community license has a hard > >2 year limit on its usage. Can somebody give me a definitive answer as to > >how long I can use the community license? Not looking to be cheap here, > >just trying to understand the options. > > > >TIA, > >Rex > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
