There's the rub. No two vendors manage keys the same way. This creates a micro-specialty in every shop for every vendor. Maybe more than one if different products are managed differently.
If you should find the same technology inhabiting two vendor's suites, you can be sure that someone's spouse has been diddling someone else's spouse. Pillow talk. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Product license key program > And please, let's not start the whole "to key or not to key" > discussion again I tried. :-( The OP's question was not "are software keys popular, a good idea, or fair?" The OP's question was about technology. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program As the author of such software, let me confirm what others have said: each vendor does things its own way -- or perhaps not at all. CA has a central "server" program for administering licenses; the software I am responsible for has the licensing embedded in the program itself. The exact technology is proprietary and a trade secret. To say "we do X and Y and Z" would be to facilitate its defeat by a dishonest customer. [And please, let's not start the whole "to key or not to key" discussion again. Vendor keys are a fact of life. Yes, they can be a PITA. Most customers are honest -- beyond honest to the point of paranoia -- but a few are not. And honest customers sometimes make honest mistakes.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
