So if you have a web application, and you only have the web app connect to
the DB with a generic username you can avoid having lots of concurrent
users. You can just create your own database to do user authentication to
your app. I wonder if they have some sort of TOS to cover this kind of
loophole (unless I misunderstood, and you can't do what I proposed).
Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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From: Raul A. Jager W.
How do you count web users? (Apache)
You can probably search and find a document that explains IBM i user based
licensing. I found it recently, but didn't bookmark it. In a nutshell, a
user
is any individual who "exchanges credentials" with IBM i. In other words,
the
individual has an IBM i user profile, LDAP entry, or validation list entry
used
to authenticate the user. It doesn't matter whether the user is
connecting via
HTTP, Telnet, FTP, or whatever. If the individual exchange credentials
with IBM
i, then user based licensing applies for that individual.
User based licensing does not apply if the individual does not exchange
credentials with IBM i.
-Nathan
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