Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-27 Thread Bob H
All good responses and what I expected, but worth asking. And the problem licenses did go in as Sev1's, with the result being a non- graceful and unnecessarily delayed, but completed cutover. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread Bob
Hi all, During a recent CPU upgrade from a z9 to a z10, it would really have helped if we could have pretested the new s/w licenses for the 2097 on the old 2094. Anyone know of a free or low cost way to do this (to allow the software vendors to sleep better during the cut over). We did get

Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
Bob wrote: During a recent CPU upgrade from a z9 to a z10, it would really have helped if we could have pretested the new s/w licenses for the 2097 on the old 2094. Anyone know of a free or low cost way to do this (to allow the software vendors to sleep better during the cut over). We did get a

Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread Kelman, Tom
Capacity Planner Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Model / Serial simulation

Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
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

Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread Hal Merritt
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest Hi all, During a recent CPU upgrade from a z9 to a z10, it would really have helped if we could have pretested the new s/w licenses

Re: Model / Serial simulation for License pretest

2009-11-23 Thread August Carideo
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