Re: User licensing for web access

You could deploy and host your own web applications on an IBM i server,
where your applications might prompt for credentials, but don't use IBM
i-user or group authentication or authorization to IBM i objects.That type
of user wouldn't need a license, nor would IBM i check their authorities.

You could have hundreds of thousands, or millions of user "accounts" in a
database, where none of them would be subject to IBM i user-based licensing.

The IBM i HTTP interface is the only one that I'm aware of that provides
that type of interface. Telnet, database (odbc, jdbc), shell, FTP, and
other types of interfaces require users to authenticate against IBM i.




On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Adam Driver (MIT) <
adriver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Nathan,

Yes, I think it does.

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date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:52:17 -0700

from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>>

subject: Re: User licensing for web acc SBS



I have reviewed the IBM i licensing documents and believe that I have
enough of an understanding to respond to the question. Whether browser or
any other client, that doesn't matter. What matters is whether a user is
"authenticating against IBM i".



I interpret the phrase "authenticating against IBM i" to mean
authenticating against such things as an IBM i user profile, user
validation list, user LDAP directory entry, etc. via an IBM i user
authentication API.



I don't believe that includes the use of authentication APIs that are NOT
part of IBM i, such as methods that you come up on your own.



If a user is not "authenticating" at all, then they are not considered "a
user", who is subject to user-based licensing fees.



In regard to browsers, any user of the browser-based Navigator for i, or
any other browser user interface that uses IBM i authentication, would be
"a user", subject to license fees.



HTH,



Nathan.



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