If you need more licenses, or if you need to review the number of licenses
you currently have, I would imagine that the people in your company who
handle software purchases are the best sources of information. The
REGISTER LICENSE command currently works on the "honor system" basis.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 12/14/2004
13:03:33:

> thanks for ur response,
> in that case, we use to have 20 AIX clients when we start TSM backups
> and  Since two years, this number raised to 30 clients . When I add new
> clients in LAN, I use to register new node and made 'server license
> compliance to valid'. I never called to IBM to buy extra licenses and so
> far no problems from TSM or IBM.
>
> I wonder if this works same way when I add Novell and NT clients.
>
> I want to know how this license concept works when I able to add new
> 'n' number of clients.
>
> thanks and regards
> muthyam