Hi Joel, Ditto what others have said about using a cable.
You might try win7 compatibility mode for the software you mentioned. I have had good success with it so far. HTH, Linda Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:43 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: > On 04/25/2012 09:38 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> Pardon me if I misinterpreted, but your very short responses, each followed >> by a period, said "each of these is an issue for me". >> >> Perhaps I need more coffee before I write such a question... :) >> >> Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf >> Of Paul Gilmartin >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:30 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License >> >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:19:19 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> >>> I'll grant you the dongle issue (but it's probably unavoidable) and >>> possibly the APAR submission issue (which can be anything from a non-issue >>> to a business killer), but why is Linux/Intel hosting a problem to you >>> rather than a solution? >>> >>> Just curious. >>> >> Who used the word "problem" or "issue"? >> -- > ... > > A dongle definitely could be an issue for some. Might be less of an issue on > Linux, but my experiences on Windoze has been less than ideal and makes me > regard any application that requires a dongle as more of a gamble. While the > dongle may be regarded as "nice license insurance" from the software vendors > standpoint, it is essentially just another point of failure for the user and > lowers the value of the product. > > My wife has some very expensive Embroidery software that requires a dongle. > The license does entitle her to run the software on multiple platforms, both > her laptop and desktop, since the dongle prevents concurrent use. After a > year or so the dongle case became too loose to remove the dongle from the USB > port - the only way now is grasp and pull the dongle base with a pair of > needle-nose pliers, which works, but is certainly not the advertised > convenience. The only "support" provided by the application vendor to remedy > this situation is to re-purchase the software at full price to get a new > dongle. > > Other than using standard Windows GUI interfaces, this software does nothing > that special at the Operating System level, except for the dongle support > that requires a hardware driver written by yet a different vendor. Logic > would suggest that this application should be able to migrate from Win XP to > Win 7 without a problem, provided one can find support for the dongle on Win > 7. My initial attempts to migrate have so far failed because the dongle > vendor's current drivers for Win 7 are not compatible with the older version > dongle that came with the application. I haven't given up, but unless I can > locate a compatible driver that is also compatible with Win 7 this expensive > application is toast on Win 7. A nice result for the application vendor if > I'm forced to do an otherwise unnecessary upgrade at great cost, but from the > user's standpoint this is a very poor outcome, apparently forced by the > decision to require a dongle. > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
