Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... That is nice for us users. But eventually someone will probably want CPU checking after they realize you've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to illegal usage of your product(s). ... One would hope that most (especially large) companies would be ethical enough that this is not an

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-09 Thread Ray Mullins
-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday 09 June 2005 14:35 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Software keys under VM at DR At one place I worked we

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... I unfortunately have come across companies that do defeat serial number issues. ... I have always found that reprehensible. And, no, the 'high' cost of software doesn't justify it. I have never had 'illicite' software on any work-based computer I have ever used. At The Bank of Nova Scotia,

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/07/2005 at 06:13 PM, Norman Hollander [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you are specifically talking about CA products, I would call the Support Desk and ask for Temporary Keys for the D/R test. We did; it didn't work. 'm not a lawyer; but I don't believe that using zVM

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-07 Thread Johnston, Robert E
Thanks everyone for the input. I went ahead and opened an issue with CA to get an EKG (never heard of it before). One of our products is CA's TCP/IP. I think everyone would be mad at me if we went to Boulder from Little Rock and tcpip wouldn't work. ;) Regards, Robert

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2005 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The 'problems' were lawsuits. I'm not surprised. They had broken promises as to the timeliness of key updates for DR. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2005 at 03:45 PM, Johnston, Robert E [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM BCRS) and I have a question about vendor software keys when running z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xx in the VM

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-07 Thread Norman Hollander
Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 SYSN 3:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Software keys under VM at DR In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2005 at 03:45 PM, Johnston, Robert E [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings... We

Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-06 Thread Johnston, Robert E
Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM BCRS) and I have a question about vendor software keys when running z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xx in the VM directory is supposed to take care of the CPU serial number matching our real CPU serial

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-06 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Software keys under VM at DR Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM BCRS) and I have a question about vendor software keys when running z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xx in the VM directory is supposed to take

Re: Software keys under VM at DR

2005-06-06 Thread Goforth, Mark
snip Greetings... We are getting ready for our 1st DR exercise (using IBM BCRS) and I have a question about vendor software keys when running z/OS under VM on another CPU. Although the CPUID xx in the VM directory is supposed to take care of the CPU serial number matching our real CPU serial