What happens when the customer is running at a DR site? What happens when the customer needs to do testing with a date beyond the coverage of the license key? BTDT,GTS (no, the company was not Action Software International).
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program On 2018-02-28 01:51, Brian Westerman wrote: > This is exactly the reason we decided that our software would always be sent > with the keys for that particular site embedded into the software, there are > no separate steps necessary to install the keys. It actually provides us > with another advantage in that when it's time to update the software (or just > the keys) we ship them their new software with the new keys with all current > maintenance already applied. That way we don't end up with trying to support > 10 (or 20) years of different versions of the products. It's more work for > us on the one end, but a lot less to maintain overall. This is exactly what we do. No actions required by the customer. A couple of key considerations: 1. What action does a product take when the keys "don't fit"? Does it shut down? Does it issue license violation messages? 2. If a product shuts down when the license expires or the machine doesn't match the keys, do the effects reach beyond the product in question? Does a shutdown of the product stop the customer from performing production functions? It's worthwhile for customers of any product to know the answers to these questions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1VeNdmScBawVwEWYYFi2RSJ-2pcYx1LvsFemcVawCCMEYjjQGOSFaNtB4s8XPy9ifRYEnel7o9W6_UAWSumqwSjKjCh-qHybO3kJO069wCgDGFPEYj0mPtb1CaOnua3KO4wd0Pya4J_tPvBZYSEG7Sq-j3euJen-_ywpbdiaw32wZlwpr9_NXIhc0QnxgiwcwqY6fmQnAJZpvFkHBnplRtbsuYwAQYG-EDZy6Tbnf5ityhHQFrSFT-dYvxXQtVB8cXjYmCMPb5fmQU1JVLA37FOzRUdYN4b8xfDDA3UK3aT7BsxUP5qOlkny8eaAgkBQMhI9_wfrzzzMuDTjbEjh2_5QeR8VDzV75dR9SZxybDMkkAVWZQvFoX0y8RngFtkDJ/https%3A%2F%2Factionsoftware.com%2Fsupport%2F ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
