If you can run under z/VM you can specify the licensed CPU numbers. Some software will detect this and get the real hardware CPU numbers.
Add the DR CPU numbers to your licensing request and indicate DR only. On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > I know everyone has issues with the various ways that vendors handle their > licensing. > > <SoapBox> has to do with vendor products during a disaster situation. Some > products will work fine without license code changes (very few), other > products will work for a few days with annoying warning messages (again only > a few), and others (too many) require that a temporary license code be > acquired from the vendor before the DR system can even be IPL'd since their > products will not work at all. > > In a DR situation the priority is to get the service restored as fast as > possible. Having to literally waste time contacting a dozen, or more, vendors > for license codes simply delays the process. In some cases this can be only a > few minutes to a few hours (depending on how many people are making vendor > contact which prevents them from doing other restoration activities). > > Two vendors that I contacted suggested that we contact them before the DR to > get temporary license codes. If anyone can provide a psychic hotline to > contact to know when a DR will occur it would be appreciated. > > We have had 50+ years of vendor products and some number of those years with > DR plans, exercises, and actual disasters, to gain experience and determine > that those vendors who do not support running for even a few hours in a DR > situation before the license codes have to be updated are problem vendors as > they delay restoring service to our customers. > > I don't know if this 'rant' will help anything but perhaps some vendors may > take an interest in reviewing their licensing practices with DR in mind. > Having a 800 number doesn't necessarily help as there is still time involved > on both parties, and in some cases the 800 is just a message taking with no > actual help. > </SoapBox> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lionel B. Dyck > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
