> I'd say "it's not known whether you can do that on Hercules". AFAIK, > nobody > has ever gotten a refusal to license on Hercules at any price from IBM in > writing. If such a document exists, I'd appreciate seeing it; until I do, > there's been enough FUD thrown around from one particular party that I'm > disinclined to believe it.
Hmm. Given that you need a valid CPUID to get things ordered these days, I don't see how it *can* be possible. If the ordering people can't find the CPUID you give them, or the CPUID you give them is incapable of running the software you're ordering (eg, ordering z/VM 5.2 using a 31-bit only CPUID), they have to check with higher powers. (It took a while to get our Flex 64-bit CPUID in the system, so I hit this a couple of times.) Without that verification, the order dies in the system. I think Chuckie (on one of his Dr Jekyll days, while posing as Mr Altmark) has posted previously that IBM doesn't license software on Hercules. Alan is usually a reliable commentator on such things. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
