There has been some great discussion on this topic - I can only hope/pray that somehow change happens.
I've been working on DR planning for one of our locations and out of 15 non-IBM products, ONLY 3 will continue to operate without temp codes, and of those 3, 1 expires after 2 days and the others after 7 days. For the 12 vendor products I have to contact 7 different vendors to get temporary DR license keys. The odds of all of them having fully staffed 24/7 support to immediately provide keys is a question. The odds that they will let anyone on the DR team call to get keys is also a question - some will only talk to authorized/registered contacts. Something that is not always possible in a DR (as the contacts may have been impacted by the disaster). At least 2 of the vendors allow us to put in our DR serial numbers at no additional charge which does help somewhat but only for 2 of the products. A DR is stressful enough without having to go through the hassle of (a) contact the vendors for temporary license keys and (b) adding the license codes to the appropriate places in the correct way (is it a text file, do I need to update assembler code and assemble/link, is it smp/e, . . .). And can any of this be done on the provisioning LPAR prior to IPL'ing the DR LPAR. It's time for some sanity in this arena. Is SCRT the correct approach? I don't know but it sounds pretty good to me after this exercise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
