Makes me curious of the lists opinion on if z/OS LPARs are usually able to contact an internet site, or are commonly isolated? I seem to have formed the impression that it's quite common to have a path out/in (typically via firewalling...) is that impression accurate? It would seem to me that having a product work during initialization, then contacting a license server using, say, the CPUID just as vendor keys often do, to see if this is a licensed install would potentially be an option too? Of course only useful where a network path to the provider is permitted so would be back to manual registration keys for those where it is not... And not suggesting that is hackproof either, and I note the anecdotes that some sites have done the wrong thing, although if they had to actively hack I suspect 'they' would pause. Enabling more automation through connectivity rather than the expiring keys that I also remember would seem a nicer solution. Thoughts?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
