Grace Period info returned by QLZARTV (Retrieve License Information) not as expected -- MIDRANGE-L

Hello,

At Simon Coulters suggestion, I tried creating my product with agrace period instead of generating a 30 day license key at RSTLICPGMtime. The problem I am having with this is recognizing when thegrace period is over (under my old way, I would send a "Trial expiresin nnn days" message).

Using the grace period method, the day I installed the product,QLZARTV (Retrieve License Information) was returning a Grace PeriodExpires date of 9999999 and a licence key expiration date of9999999. I tried this again on the following day and the GracePeriod Expires date was still 9999999. I think the license keyexpiration date was also 9999999, but do not have a print screen andI have since created a product license which fills in the license keyexpiration date. I would have thought that at least one of the dateswould tell me how much time is left on the Grace Period or that therewould be some kind of message, but I didn't see anything.


QLZADDLI (Add License Key) parms are set as follows:

D LicenseInfoDS   DS

D UsageType 2 Inz('01')Concurrent limitD Compliance 2 Inz('03')Must have keyD DftUsageLimit 10I 0Inz(*Zero) Allowed days w/o keyD LicenseTerm 1 Inz('2')Entire ReleaseD AllowLicRel 1 Inz('0')Can't be releasedD VendorPasswrd 10 Inz('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx')Same for keys!!!D GracePeriod 10I 0Inz(30) Grace period days

D  AllowGracePer                 1    Inz('1')                             Yes

License Key information returned by QLZERTV API on the day theproduct was installed is as follows:


BYTESRETURNED OF LICKEYINFO = 87
BYTESAVAIL OF LICKEYINFO = 142
USAGELIMIT OF LICKEYINFO = -1
USAGECOUNT OF LICKEYINFO = 0
USAGETYPE OF LICKEYINFO = '01'
COMPLIANCETYP OF LICKEYINFO = '03'
LICENSETERM OF LICKEYINFO = 'V2R1  '
LKIRELEASELVL OF LICKEYINFO = 'V2R1M0
THRESHOLDVAL OF LICKEYINFO = -1
GRACEPERIOD OF LICKEYINFO = 30
GRACEEXPIRES OF LICKEYINFO = '9999999
PROCESSORGRP OF LICKEYINFO = 'P05'
LKIRESERVED OF LICKEYINFO = '  '
PEAKUSAGE OF LICKEYINFO = 0
EXPIRECENTURY OF LICKEYINFO = '9
EXPIREDATE OF LICKEYINFO = '9999999
EXPIREYMD OF LICKEYINFO = '999999
VENDORDATA OF LICKEYINFO = '        '
PRDLICHANDLE OF LICKEYINFO = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

Shouldn't I be able to tell when the grace period expires from thelicense APIs or do I just have to wait until the system figures outthat the Grace Period has expires and shuts off the usage of theproduct? I would have thought that since I have a Default UsageLimit of Zero, that the Grace period count down would start the firsttime I used the product.


Thanks


Dave Murvin
DRM Enterprises, Inc.