[Info-vax] Hobbyist license expiry and transition to new license

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-12-10 14:02:50 +0000, Dymaxion Development said:

> No I did not load the licenses. They were done by someone else who is 
> no longer here. I was asked to look at things. I know nothing about VMS 
> license manage except the manuals tell me. But it didn't say about 
> anything about what happens if licenses expire and what if there were 
> multiple licenses.
> 
> I will give your suggestion a try. I do not have access to the system 
> at the moment but will let you know how it went. Thank you.


If you disable the HPE Hobbyist PAKs here and load and switch to VSI 
OpenVMS licenses, your server will stop working.

The VSI OpenVMS licenses require an OpenVMS upgrade to a VSI OpenVMS version.

And the HPE hobbyist PAKs do not work with VSI releases.

So you cannot be using a VSI version with those HPE OpenVMS hobbyist licenses.

This unless you acquired HPE OpenVMS licenses from somewhere, such as 
from HPE financial services.

And I might then ask why. What's keeping you with HPE OpenVMS releases 
that are not getting vendor patches?







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