Activating your machine and feature licenses using the DS CLI

Use the steps described in this task to activate your license activation codes. These codes must be activated before any configuration can be applied to your DS6000™ network.

The following licenses can be activated depending on your purchase:

Operating environment license for each storage unit that you own. (This license must be activated.)
Copy Services, which can consist of the following features:
- FlashCopy
- Remote mirror and copy

There are multiple codes that are associated with these features. To obtain the information that you need to activate these licenses and features in your storage unit, go to the IBM Disk Storage Feature Activation (DSFA) Web site at:

http://www.ibm.com/storage/dsfa/

Download your codes onto a diskette in XML format. You can then import the codes from the XML file when you process the DS CLI applykey command.

Note: In most situations, the DSFA application can locate your order confirmation code (OCC) when you enter the DS6000 (1750) serial number and signature. However, if the OCC is not attached to the 1750 record, you must assign it to the 1750 record in the DSFA application. In this situation, you must have the OCC (which you can find on the License Function Authorization document).

The applykey DS CLI command activates the licenses for your storage unit. The lskey DS CLI command verifies which type of licensed features are activated for your storage unit.

Perform the following steps to activate your license activation codes.

Log into the DS CLI application in interactive command mode (if you are not already logged in).
Issue the DS CLI applykey command at the dscli command prompt as follows (this example presumes that your XML file is named "keys" and it resides on a diskette in your A: drive): dscli> applykey -file a:\keys.xml IBM.1750-68FA120

Press Enter. When the process has completed, the following message is displayed:

Sun Aug 11 02:23:49 PST 2004 IBM DS  CLI 
Version 5.0.0.0 DS: IBM.1750-68FA120 
Licensed Machine Code key xxxx, key xxxx successfully applied.

Verify that the keys have been activated for your storage unit by issuing the DS CLI lskey command as follows: lskey IBM.1750-68FA120

Press Enter and the following type of report is displayed:

Sun Apr 09 02:23:49 PST 2006 IBM DS CLI

Activation Key	Authorization Level (TB)	Scope
Operating Environment (OEL)	45	All
Remote mirror and copy (RMC)	25.1	All
Remote mirror for z/OS (RMZ)	25.1	CKD
Point in time copy (PTC)	On	All
Parallel access volumes (PAV)	On	CKD