Re: Rational confusion

Your BP is lost in the tall grass.

You should have an entitlement page from IBM. That entitlement page points you to the Rational license site (www.rational.com/licensing). Go there. Click on the license key center to get to the license key portal (outsourced to a company named Flexera).

You need your site number and sales order number (from the entitlement sheet) to register, and then you just download the keys.

Joe

This is unreal.

The BP gave up trying to get the license key and told me to call IBM
Service. I called them and opened a PMR.

Rational called and they said since it was ordered through a BP, the keys
would be made available to the BP and the BP is to give them to me. I told
him the BP had given up because they had exhausted all their resources.

He then authorized me as a user of the BP's Partnerworld site (not kidding)
by giving me a signon there. Then he walked me through downloading and
unzipping what I needed.

Evidently someone at my BP doesn't know how this is to be done.



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Jeff Crosby<jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Is the subject an oxymoron? :)

We've discussed here from time to time the confusion of most people on this
list regarding the product name, what one is entitled to, how to get it,
what product contains what feature, etc. It has now struck me too.

I downloaded and installed IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems
Software 8.0 (common name RDP 8) about 4 weeks ago. The amount of time it
takes to have someone answer the questions like: What am I entitled to? Do
I have to pay for this? How much will it cost me? How do I get my license
keys? etc is astonishing. I still don't know where to look for my license
key and neither does my BP. He is as disgusted as I am. With luck, I'll
actually have the license key before the 70 day trial runs out.

The BP had no idea that my SW maintenance agreement did not cover this. I
only knew it thanks to Pluta and others on this list.

IBM and Rational, please get your act together.


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