Re: Counting users

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Have you looked at the OS/400 License Management API's ?
> 
> A user signing in on X sessions from one PC is easy - IP address will be the
> same

  So will 100 users coming in via a gateway.

> A user singing in on a dumb tube and doing a Atl+SysReq is also easy - same
> device name, same jobname, different job number.

  True

> The issue you have (and you have already stated you know it) is that for
> dumb terminals that have multi session support (those that have the Atl+Jump
> support), these multi-sessions appear as separate devices - those are going
> to be the difficult ones to count as 'one' user.

  Can you not somehow (I havn't looked) retrieve the serial number of
the device for twinax devices? If they are the same, then one user, else
not.  I'd suspect that the guy with two physical devices is just going
to have to count as two users.

  BTW I got a call from one of my customers a few weeks back. They were
being hounded by their software vendor because they had exceeded the
number of users. Not the number in the software, the number of USER
PROFILES on the system!!  Seems their agreement doesn't limit the number
of users in their software (each of which must be enrolled in order to
utilize it) but the number on the box! So all the email users (yes the
AS/400 has happily been their mail server since 1999) get counted
against the software even though they have *SIGNOFF for their initial
program!! The issue has not been resolved yet but the customer believes
they are abiding by the spirit of the agreement though not the letter of
it.  (Wish I'd thought of it, almost 50 users BUILT IN! What a revenue
stream.)

  - Larry
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