It sure seems like Chicago-Soft has achieved a license mechanism for QuickRef with near-minimal inconvenience:
On their website you specify a CPU and request a key(1). They send an email with a binary attachment. You transfer that attachment to a z/OS dataset on DASD. It's never taken me more than 5 minutes. (1) Since they don't currently offer trials, they perform some contract verification tasks before you can request the key. But that wouldn't be necessary for a trial. On those occasions where their lawyers and ours haven't seen eye-to-eye, they have still given me temporary 30 or 60 day keys until the i's get crossed and the t's get dotted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN