RE: 515 and 525 user licensing

From: Pete Helgren

Web access becomes a little more interesting and less intuitive to
System i (although Microsoft license users will be familiar with it).
Any user that authenticates to the System i to use System i resources
(DB, security, web services, etc) requires a UE, whether that is done
through a System i User Profile or an authentication mechanism that you
built into your application. If a *person* authenticates, however that
is done, and uses System i resources, then it requires a UE. Casual web
serving, with no authentication, requires no UE. The easiest way to
handle external, authenticated users who are NOT employees of your own
company, is to buy the external access license for $4000 which allows
for unlimited access for external authenticated users.

So, like everyone else, IBM really doesn't have a clue when it comes to the
web. If you have a web application that Suzy from Applebee's logs onto once
a week to order supplies, and you have another browser-based application
that Jim uses to enter and track orders all day long, both of those users
require a UE.

How wonderfully silly.

Here's where it gets fun: if you have a single profile that all the
Applebee's use, then that's a single user, and requires a single UE. And
that's really the only thing IBM might be able to track (might being the key
word).

However, if sometime during the transaction the user enters their employee
ID and you authenticate that against a file, then they're supposed to each
have individual UEs, and you have to keep track of those yourself and pay
IBM. You're on your honor there.

Joe