Standalone DDR License

[Tom Duerbusch]

If I had a license for VM and I DDR some full pack VSE volumes.
Eventually I dropped the license for VM.
Now I need to restore those VSE volumes.

Am I licensed to be able to use the standalone version of DDR to recover those 
volumes?

Goes back to the old issue of if you use a product for backups, do you have to 
keep licensing the product, even if you never intend to use it, just in case 
you have to restore something backed up by that product

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

Re: Standalone DDR License

[Alan Altmark]

On Wednesday, 06/22/2011 at 11:14 EDT, Tom Duerbusch 
duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote:
 If I had a license for VM and I DDR some full pack VSE volumes.
 Eventually I dropped the license for VM.
 Now I need to restore those VSE volumes.
 
 Am I licensed to be able to use the standalone version of DDR to recover 
those 
 volumes?

official answer
Your obligations are set forth in the base license agreements and the 
License Information Document that came with your VM order.  If needed, 
consult legal counsel to help you interpret those documents.
/official answer

unofficial answer
If you used z/VM 4.1 or later, you're fine.  Under the International 
Program Licensing Agreement terms and conditions, your license exists 
unless IBM terminates it.

The license set forth under the IBM Customer Agreement (e.g. z/VM 3.1 or 
earlier, z/OS, many VM program products) is continually renewed on a 
monthly basis.  As long as you pay the MLC, the license remains in effect.

When you no longer have a license, you must destroy all copies of the 
licensed code.
/unofficial answer

Alan Altmark

z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
IBM System Lab Services and Training 
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