| Steve,
Yes, it is similar. On the license paks you should see:
For standalone drives (OSDS)
Product name: OSDS
Producer: PERCEPTICS
Number or units: 50 <--- For a single drive
Activity Table Code: CONSTANT=50
For jukeboxes (OSMS)
Product name: OSMS
Producer: PERCEPTICS
Number or units: XXXX <-- Varies # of slots * 2 * 50
Activity Table Code: CONSTANT=50
A difference is that the OpenVMS product is that the "number of units"
refered to physical slots in jukebox while the Unix product uses this
number to to refer to the number of possible software volumes, i.e. two
times the number of slots.
>>> And is that true, that for a 16 platter Juke, we'd need 160
units for a Unix machine/license?
No..., 16 * 2 * 50 = 1600. Note: Constants=50. If you had the
number of units at 160 then you would only allow 3 OSMS/UNIX volumes
to be licensed.
An OSDS-5 license for an OSMS/OpenVMS 16 slot jukebox would have
a "Number of units" value of 160 because the "Activity Table Code"
for a OSMS-5 VMS license pak is "CONSTANT=10". Since the OSMS/VMS
software counts slots you have 16 * 10 = 160.
Sorry, for the confusion but by the time the OSMS/UNIX product was
being fit for LMF code it was decided that the "-5" and "-12" parts
were no longer needed. To minimize conflict between OpenVMS and UNIX
the product names were changed. The CONSTANT=xxx value was changed
to a 50 so it was not the same as 10 or 100 as is used for the OpenVMS
products.
Can you see now?.... Clear as mud...isn't it!!!
Rob
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