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Basically the pitch was they *can't* enforce it and are relying on the
licensing owner to enforce the licensing requirements. They didn't say
that it was the "honor system" but that was about as good a description
as I could give it. IBM has the right to audit your user entitlements
as part of the licensing agreement so I suppose they could come in and
determine just how your users are authenticating to the System i. But
*would* they? I doubt it. You can either be honest about it or
dishonest, I guess. Over time they may have better tools to monitor
it. For now, it is up to the licensing entity to be straight with them.
I had seen this information back in February as well and the whole
"counting users" issue hasn't changed since the original pitch.
Pete
albartell wrote:
It didn't make any difference whether the authenticating user was a System
i user profile or one of your own users in your own database. If there was
a process that involved uniquely identifying a user and passing a userid and
password, it was "authenticating" and was using a User Entitlement that
would have to be paid for.
No possible way they can enforce this. I am guessing they meant to say
something else.
Aaron Bartell
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