> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?) > > On Feb 17, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > > >> Not all products are like that. Maybe then the issue isn't so much > >> that keys are required, but the way they're sometimes implemented > >> by the vendor? > > > > Sometimes? -- all the time. No vendor, that we use, has made keys > > easy to use! > > > > > >> If keys were always received well before the old ones expired, and > >> all you had to do was enter them in a flat file, would that be a > >> big deal? > ------------SNIP------------------ > > This is a more of a what if issue but I have seen it happen in the > real world. > > I have seen a system "frozen" no updates allowed for *any* reason. > The license expires (my memory says it was a CA product but its > immaterial) what does one do? > > Ed
Couple of ideas pop: 1. Reclassify "license refresh" as a non-update. 2. Connect the production system to the outside world and let the ISV product talk to the ISV website server thing to verify license and dynamically update the license (e.g., "call home"). Jeffrey D. Smith Principal Product Architect Farsight Systems Corporation 700 KEN PRATT BLVD. #204-159 LONGMONT, CO 80501-6452 303-774-9381 direct 303-484-6170 FAX http://www.farsight-systems.com/ see my résumé at my website (yes, I am looking for employment) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
