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
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:30 AM
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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"?
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...
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.
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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