Entering a Capacity Upgrade on Demand activation while running Trial Capacity on Demand

To manage the permanent activation of resources while running under a Trial Capacity on Demand (CoD) activation, you select your option based on the number of resources that you would like to activate.

• When the number of resources to be permanently activated is equal to the number of resources that are activated by Trial CoD, these options are presented to convert the trial resource activations into permanent resource activations when the permanent activation code is entered on the Hardware Management Console (HMC):

  Option	Description
  Yes	The conversion occurs immediately (dynamic conversion from trial resources to permanent resources).
  No	If there are enough inactive resources (not trial or permanent), the permanent activation will be accomplished using the inactive resources that are currently installed on the system. If there are not enough inactive resources to satisfy the request, the permanent activation will not be accepted.

• When the number of resources to be permanently activated is greater than the number of resources activated through Trial CoD and there are enough inactive resources plus the trial resources to satisfy the permanent activation, these options are presented to convert the trial resource activations into permanent resource activations when the permanent activation code is entered on the HMC:

  Option	Description
  Yes	The conversion occurs immediately (dynamic conversion from trial resources to permanent resources using as many inactive resources as necessary).
  No	If there are enough inactive resources (not trial or permanent), the permanent activation will be accomplished using the inactive resources that are currently installed on the system. If there are not enough inactive resources to satisfy the request, then the permanent activation will not be accepted. You should stop the Trial CoD request before attempting to permanently activate resources.

• When the number of resources to be permanently activated is less than the number of resources activated through Trial CoD, these are the results that occur:
  • If there are enough inactive resources (not trial or permanent), then the permanent activation will be accomplished using the inactive resources that are currently installed on the system.
  • If there are not enough inactive resources to satisfy the request, then the permanent activation code will not be accepted. Stop the Trial CoD request before attempting to permanently activate resources.