The Change TAA Key command allows the critical information in the
TAALICENSE data area to be changed.
For example, assume you licensed the TAA Productivity Tools for
software group P20 and want to upgrade your hardware to a new model
which will place you in the P30 software group. In addition to
upgrading your IBM i license, you must upgrade your TAA Productivity
Tools license to allow you to operate in the new software group.
To upgrade your TAA Productivity Tools license or make any valid
changes to the TAALICENSE data area, you must contact the TAA
Productivity Tools owner to receive a key which will allow you to use
CHGTAAKEY.
To complete CHGTAAKEY successfully, you must enter the special key
provided by the TAA Productivity Tools owner. The special key
differs from the key information in the TAALICENSE data area. You
should not attempt to use CHGTAAKEY without having a special key.
The tools can now support multiple licenses on a single system. This
makes it much easier to manage cases where the system image must be
switched or replicated to a system with a different serial number.
This would include cases for capacity backup (CBU), disaster recovery
(DR), high availability (HA), or live partition mobility (LPM).
Supplemental licenses can be installed in addition to the base
license for a system. The base license is created either during
install or with CHGTAAKEY. Its serial number must match the system
at that time. Supplemental licenses are installed on that same
system and can reference other serial numbers. If a license check
fails for the base license, the supplemental licenses are checked.
The base license resides in the TAATOOL/TAALICENSE data area. There
can be up to 9 supplemental licenses in TAATOOL named TAALIC_001
through TAALIC_009. You create a supplemental license using the
CHGTAAKEY command as follows:
CHGTAAKEY KEY() LICNBR(1)
This creates a supplemental license in TAALIC_001.
When the additional system is used, the base license and supplemental
licenses are available since they ve been replicated or switched.
The base license check will fail, but the supplemental license check
will succeed. This will be entirely transparent to you.
Command parameters *CMD
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KEY The key obtained from the TAA Productivity Tools
owner for this system, tier, and IBM i release.
This is optional if running interactively, but
required in batch. Embedded blanks are ignored.
LICENSEE This is the Licensee idenification information. Up
to six lines of identifying information may be
provided.
This will be placed into the TAALICENSE data area
and will be shown on the DSPTAALIC command.
Suggested information is company name and address.
Other information may include a technical contact's
name, phone, and email.
The special value *SAME will cause the information
currently in the TAALICENSE data area to to used.
LICNBR This is the license number to set from the key. You
can have a base license in TAALICENSE and up to nine
other licenses (TAALIC_001 to TAALIC_009) present on
a system. The license check will pick a license to
use based on the QSRLNBR system value. This allows
you to have a license for your base system and
replicate to a system with a different serial
number.
The default value *BASE will use the key to modify
the license stored in the TAALICENSE data area.
Restrictions
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You cannot successfully use CHGTAAKEY without entering a valid key
provided by the owner of the TAA Productivity Tools owner.
Prerequisites
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None.
Implementation
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None, the tool is ready to use. Only the object form exists on your
system.
Object only tool
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CHGTAAKEY is shipped in object form only. The source does not exist
on your system.
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