7 Sep
2009
7 Sep
'09
12:15 a.m.
leaknoil wrote:
I just picked up a pretty cool old CISC based AS/400
box I've been
having fun exploring. Model 9402 C04. [...] The system now complains
about invalid system password and wants me to bypass it or enter in a
valid one. Apparently this is something that gets generated by IBM. I
just bypassed it but, now the system gives me a messages about the
bypass ending in 70 days. The funny thing is it keeps saying 70 days
even after 3 days have past. Y2K issue perhaps?
Probably still 70 days due to the
battery having failed.
Anyhow, I researched this a few years back when I had a CISC AS/400. To
get a new system password, you'll have to pay IBM for an OS/400 license
transfer, since otherwise you don't actually have an OS/400 license. I
wasn't able to find out an exact price for a license transfer, other
than that it would be *many* thousands of dollars.
IBM changed the OS/400 licensing policy with the RISC-based machines; on
those the OS is licensed to the machine so apparently it can be
transferred with the machine without the astronomical expense. I
haven't tried, though.
Eric