Date:         Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:07:21 -0600
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: License Expiry warning message
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"Don Stanley" <don_stanley@XTRA.CO.NZ> wrote:

>Like it or not Peter, its very common for the budget boys to hold the
>strings on this one. Like James, I am in a site, and in fact I cannot
>recall ever not being, where the accountants will not pay the bills
>early. The sheer inconvenience to us (and the bugs in VSAM file handling
>that this caused in V5 on MVS) are of absolutely no consequence. The
>bills are paid near the last day of the grace period, and we have been
>in the situation (not at my current site) where they ignore our pleas to
>pay up and we loss the license for a few hours. Nowadays I try to
>organise people to flood the SAS sys prog with emails weekly and leave
>him to hassle the bill payers, at least then we get the new license
>installed as soon as it arrives!

At least now there's a temporary workaround, since you can get a 6-day automatic extension from the SAS web site.




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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Development Manager, Technical Group
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA