[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[BillPedersen]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:15:31 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message 
> news:na30ie$fn2$1 at news.albasani.net...
> > Den 2016-02-18 kl. 00:35, skrev Jan-Erik Soderholm:
> >> Den 2016-02-17 kl. 23:45, skrev Bill Cunningham:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>
> >> [snip snip]
> >>
> >>>
> >>> It is a hobbyist PAK. 112 PAKs. The other email said to run it as above.
> >>> I can get the file onto VMS...
> >>
> >> And exactly HOW did you do that ???
> >>
> >> What do you see when TYPE'ing your file?
> >>
> >> Does it look OK with clean consecutive lines
> >> each starting with an $?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, not *all* lines... Not the continuation lines
> > where the line before ends in a dash ( "-" ).
> >
> > The very first couple of lines should read:
> >
> > $!
> > $!                            HP HOBBY LICENSE AGREEMENT
> > $!                                    For OpenVMS
> > $!
> >
> > And then further below there should be 100+ sections
> > looking like:
> >
> > $!
> > $! This PAK issued on 18-Sep-2015 07:34
> > $ SHOW LICENSE ACMS/SINCE/NOOUTPUT/TERMINATION_DATE=dd-mm-yyyy
> > $ IF ($STATUS .EQS. "%X107880D3") .OR. ($STATUS .EQS. "%X107880CB")
> > $ THEN
> > $ LICENSE REGISTER ACMS -
> > /ISSUER=HP -
> 
> DEC -
> 
> > /AUTHORIZATION=HOBBYIST-xxx-xxx-xxx -
> > /PRODUCER=HP -
> 
> I don't think I have this. /PRODUCER
> 
> > /UNITS=0 -
> > /TERMINATION_DATE=dd-mmm-yyyy -
> > /OPTIONS=(IA64,PPL) -
> 
> I definately have no options.
> 
> > /CHECKSUM=2-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
> > $!
> > $ LICENSE DISABLE ACMS/LOG/PRODUCER=HP/ALL
> > $ LICENSE UNLOAD  ACMS/LOG/PRODUCER=HP
> > $ LICENSE ENABLE  ACMS/LOG/PRODUCER=HP/AUTH=HOBBYIST-xxx-xxx-xxx
> > $ LICENSE LOAD    ACMS/LOG/PRODUCER=HP
> > $ ENDIF
> > $ !
> >
> >
>     I do have an entry I believe called activity,
> 
> /ACTIVITY=CONSTANT=100
> 
> I have that yes. So manually with vmslicense.com is going to take some 
> getting used too.
> 
> I have several DV* PAKs and UCX and UCX* PAKs.  don't know all the ones I'd 
> have to enter for minimal functionality. There is one thing I haven't tried 
> I think may work. Loading into linux LDXE or Xfc. Something other than just 
> X which I have been told will work. I might be able to cut and paste there. 
> That will solve my problem. But I am trying many things.
> 
>     Thanks for your inquiry. Yes you can load via the card reader.
> 
> Bill

If you do a DIRECTORY/FULL of your resulting file what are its characteristics?  Specifically I am wondering if your file being read by the card reader is getting lines truncated.

  DIRECTORY/FULL vmslicense.com

You should get something like this back:

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]

paks_16.com;1                 File ID:  (10192,22,0)
Size:           58/64         Owner:    [SYSTEM]
Created:    10-AUG-2015 15:44:17.50
Revised:    10-AUG-2015 15:58:39.73 (1)
Expires:    <None specified>
Backup:     <No backup recorded>
Effective:  <None specified>
Recording:  <None specified>
Accessed:   10-AUG-2015 15:44:17.50
Attributes: 10-AUG-2015 15:58:39.73
Modified:   10-AUG-2015 15:44:17.50
Linkcount:  1
File organization:  Sequential
Shelved state:      Online
Caching attribute:  Writethrough
File attributes:    Allocation: 64, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0, No version limit
Record format:      Variable length, maximum 0 bytes, longest 92 bytes
Record attributes:  Carriage return carriage control
RMS attributes:     None
Journaling enabled: None
File protection:    System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RE, World:
Access Cntrl List:  None
Client attributes:  None

Total of 1 file, 58/64 blocks.
$

If not then we need to know the exact information back and the exact error messages.  The "longest 92 bytes" is important, if you show 80 or 81 or similar then that suggests you might be losing data by truncation or line wrap.

Bill.