Would they have to be "build to order". On the SDO DDR, products that
are separately licensable products included and you depend on the
customers honesty or fear of lawsuits or something like that in order
not to put them in service. You could include all of the Program
Product tape contents on one DVD and do it in that manner. Or another
method, borrowing from the PC world and in the mainframe world, CA, and
give the customer an activation fee. If the fee is not entered, the
product doesn't work. I get an activation code (or whatever it's
called), once a year from CA for vmBackup.
Jim
Les Geer (607-429-3580) wrote:
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It would be a Good Thing to have all needed program materials
available on the DVDs, including the associated VM products. And/or
available for download.
Motivation: Tape drives are the least reliable part of our
operation. (Admittedly we have some pretty old 3494s and pretty old
3590 drives. We're experiencing a 3494 failure as I type this.) We
would like to move to a virtual tape environment with no real tape
drives. This isn't quite feasible here yet for reasons besides IBM
software distribution, but we hope it will be feasible soon.
Having all the products available on DVD build to order is a known
requirement that we continue to work towards realizing. I have no
timeframe when we might actually see this happen.
Best Regards,
Les Geer
IBM z/VM and Linux Development
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Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
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