New method for generating HW license keys on IBM System z

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Symptom
In certain scenarios (e.g. System z capacity upgrade) your SAP licenses are getting invalidated, because the saplicense program generates a different hardware key, for which you did not install the license yet.
Other terms
saplicense, capacity upgrade, customer key, cust. key, key, hardware key, SLIC_HW_VERSION, z/OS , Linux on System z
Reason and Prerequisites
The SAP software [...]