Re: How to count number of simultaneous IBMi users

Which product id were you looking at? There's licensing based on
processors, like feature 5051.

For dormant users you can try
select AUTHORIZATION_NAME, PREVIOUS_SIGNON,LAST_USED_TIMESTAMP,
max(PREVIOUS_SIGNON,LAST_USED_TIMESTAMP) as Last_activity_timestamp
from qsys2.user_info
where user_creator <> '*IBM'
order by 4 asc
If you're too afraid to delete them, then set their status to *DISABLED and
see if there are negative ramifications.

What's the diff between previous_signon and last_used_timestamp? Stuff
like a scheduled job entry vs signing on to a 5250 display.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 1:00 PM Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Because of hardware going out of support (P8) looking atg moving to the
IBMi subscription model


https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/announcing-the-ibm-i-system-subscription#:~:text=The%20IBM%20i%20System%20Subscription%20solution%20is%20billed%20on%20an,of%20one%20or%20more%20years
.

But just to confirm the actual number of concurrent users we have, I had
the techs check and they used this command

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/cl/wrklicinf.html

But it produced a number way larger than the current number of IBMi
licences we have purchased and what is confusing is, if we are actually
running more than our licence limit, there are no errors on the console.
I also the admin team to check the number of accounts on the OS but there
are so many dormant accounts, people who have left etc. that is also not a
good metric.

Any ideas on other ways to check the actual number of concurrent people
users?

Thanks
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