New Find: AS400

[David V. Corbin]

>>> 
>>> I gave up on the idea of running any of the old CISC-based 
>>> AS/400 boxes because the OS/400 license for those is non- 
>>> transferrable, it costs a lot of money to buy a license, 
>>> and the service processor assumes that if the machine has 
>>> been powered down for more than 40 days, the machine may 
>>> have been sold, so it demands a password that you have to 
>>> have IBM generate for you before you can get it going again.
>>> 
>>> The RISC-based AS/400 systems apparently don't have this 
>>> problem; IBM changed their licensing policy so that OS/400 
>>> can be transferred, but they didn't change that for the 
>>> CISC-based machines.  :-(
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 

Eric, Are you sure??? 

I don't deal with the AS/400 much, but a good friend of mine does. I was
under the impression that IBM would provide a password for non-commercial
use on the CICS machine assuming a valid chain of ownership was
provided.....


David