Hello

what happen for 5770-br2 when expire subscription term?

Will it stop working? Or will it just stop providing support services and patches?

Best Regards

Seyed Khavari

Hello Seyed,

Yes, if your IBM BRMS BR2 license expires, most of the BRMS functions will stop working.

You'll lose access to backup, recovery, and media management features until you renew or update the license key.

There is a built-in product locking function doing this...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=installation-updating-license-information

best regards,

Stefan Pelzer

Hello

what happen for 5770-br2 when expire subscription term?

Will it stop working? Or will it just stop providing support services and patches?

Best Regards

Seyed Khavari

Hello Stefan

Thank you very much for your reply.

You are correct.

But I am talking about a situation where the subscription period has expired and I have not been able to renew the subscription on time.

Will the BRMS-BR2 software stop working in this situation?

Best Regards,

Seyed Khavari

Hello Seyed,

Yes, if your IBM BRMS BR2 license expires, most of the BRMS functions will stop working.

You'll lose access to backup, recovery, and media management features until you renew or update the license key.

There is a built-in product locking function doing this...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=installation-updating-license-information

best regards,

Stefan Pelzer

Hello

what happen for 5770-br2 when expire subscription term?

Will it stop working? Or will it just stop providing support services and patches?

Best Regards

Seyed Khavari

Yes it will stop working.  It is a computer, it doesn't listen to compassionate discussions on how one failed to notice a license was about the expire, the person who was supposed to watch this left the company, it takes management months to get an approval.  All that, it ignores.  This isn't two guys haggling price at the market.

IBM i's Run SQL Scripts has multiple examples on how to monitor for expiring licenses.  For example:

--  category:  IBM i Services
--  description:  Product - Expiring license info

--
-- Return information about all licensed products and features 
-- that will expire within the next 2 weeks.
--
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO
WHERE LICENSE_EXPIRATION <= CURRENT DATE + 50 DAYS;

-- Return information about all licensed products and features 
-- that will expire within the next 2 weeks, for installed products only
--
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO
WHERE INSTALLED = 'YES' AND
LICENSE_EXPIRATION <= CURRENT DATE + 50 DAYS;

Hello Stefan

Thank you very much for your reply.

You are correct.

But I am talking about a situation where the subscription period has expired and I have not been able to renew the subscription on time.

Will the BRMS-BR2 software stop working in this situation?

Best Regards,

Seyed Khavari

Hello Seyed,

Yes, if your IBM BRMS BR2 license expires, most of the BRMS functions will stop working.

You'll lose access to backup, recovery, and media management features until you renew or update the license key.

There is a built-in product locking function doing this...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=installation-updating-license-information

best regards,

Stefan Pelzer

Hello

what happen for 5770-br2 when expire subscription term?

Will it stop working? Or will it just stop providing support services and patches?

Best Regards

Seyed Khavari

Yes it will stop working.  It is a computer, it doesn't listen to compassionate discussions on how one failed to notice a license was about the expire, the person who was supposed to watch this left the company, it takes management months to get an approval.  All that, it ignores.  This isn't two guys haggling price at the market.

IBM i's Run SQL Scripts has multiple examples on how to monitor for expiring licenses.  For example:

--  category:  IBM i Services
--  description:  Product - Expiring license info

--
-- Return information about all licensed products and features 
-- that will expire within the next 2 weeks.
--
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO
WHERE LICENSE_EXPIRATION <= CURRENT DATE + 50 DAYS;

-- Return information about all licensed products and features 
-- that will expire within the next 2 weeks, for installed products only
--
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO
WHERE INSTALLED = 'YES' AND
LICENSE_EXPIRATION <= CURRENT DATE + 50 DAYS;

Hello Stefan

Thank you very much for your reply.

You are correct.

But I am talking about a situation where the subscription period has expired and I have not been able to renew the subscription on time.

Will the BRMS-BR2 software stop working in this situation?

Best Regards,

Seyed Khavari

Hello Seyed,

Yes, if your IBM BRMS BR2 license expires, most of the BRMS functions will stop working.

You'll lose access to backup, recovery, and media management features until you renew or update the license key.

There is a built-in product locking function doing this...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5.0?topic=installation-updating-license-information

best regards,

Stefan Pelzer

Hello

what happen for 5770-br2 when expire subscription term?

Will it stop working? Or will it just stop providing support services and patches?

Best Regards

Seyed Khavari