Renewing licenses

zPDT® licenses in a token or in a software license server are usually valid for a year and must be renewed after that time. The procedure for renewing token licenses varies with different categories of zPDT users.

Users with 1090 tokens (typically ISVs or IBM® internal users) normally create a request file by using the Z1090_token_update -r command and send this file to their zPDT provider. The provider, in turn, returns an update file that is installed with the Z1090_token_update -u command. This example shows one sequence of commands for requesting and installing the update file.

To request an update file, be sure that only a single token is connected to the computer. zPDT must be stopped and you must be logged in as root and in the /usr/z1090/bin directory.


$ awsstop
$ su
#	cd /usr/z1090/bin
#	Z1090_token_update -r mytoken.req

In this sequence of commands, the file name mytoken.req is an arbitrary name that you provide for the request. The mytoken.req file is sent to the zPDT provider. The provider returns the file mytoken.zip.

To process the returned file, you must be logged in as root in the /usr/z1090/bin directory. zPDT must be stopped .


#	Z1090_token_update -u mytoken.zip
#	exit

Older versions of zPDT use the SecureUpdateUtility command instead of Z1090_ token_update and work with .upwreturned files instead of .zip files.

The returned .zip file also installs the token licenses needed to decrypt z/OS® IPL volumes. After installing the new file, the token must be removed from the computer for about 15 seconds. Removing the token forces the token drivers to reread the token when it is reinstalled.

For IBM internal users, the provider is Resource Link®.

Users with 1091 tokens, who are typically ZD&T users, might have a somewhat different process that does not require a request file. This process sends the customer a customized .zip file, which is installed by using this sequence of commands. Be sure that only a single token is connected to the computer. zPDT must be stopped and you must be logged in as root and in the /usr/z1090/bin directory. In this sequence of commands, xxxxx.zip is a file name assigned by the zPDT provider.


$ awsstop
$ su
# cd /usr/z1090/bin
#	Z1091_token_update -u xxxxx.zip
#	exit

After you install the .zip file, the token must be removed for about 15 seconds. Software licenses (for LDK-SL servers) are installed by installing a new v2c file as described in LDK-SL server.

Licenses must be renewed on the computer that runs the server. You cannot renew or update the token licenses remotely. The Z1090_token_update command or the older SecureUpdateUtility command work only with a single token installed in a local USB port.