[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-02-18 kl. 02:37, skrev 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
>
> I am not sure where the IA64 PAK information came from...

That was what *I* had at hand as an "example".
Of course it will not be *exactly* the same, but the
general format will be. Optinns will differ.

But I do not think he has got a proper COM file
transferad at all...

Jan-Erik.