a few of our s/w products drill down to the model number not just the serial #, but all that could not be done prior had grace periods or so called emerg keys
Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixs OFTWARE.COM> To Sent by: IBM IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Mainframe cc Discussion List <ibm-m...@bama.ua Subject .edu> Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest 11/23/2009 01:52 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <ibm-m...@bama.ua .edu> Kelman, Tom wrote: > In 35 years in the business, first as a MVS sys prog and now as a > performance analyst, I've never seen anyway to pretest the software > keys. I'd be interested if anyone knows of one. > z/VM can set a guest's CPU serial to any value. This works to "fool" only a subset of software. AFAIK, the CPU type cannot be changed under z/VM. And, these days much software looks at the output of STSI (or CSRSI), QVS, LPDAT, DIAG 204, and other sources to get capacity information. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html