When the license check is done in the product, it checks with Installation
Manager (which is where the licenses are registered). If either user
license or floating license is valid, then the license check succeeds. In
terms of user licenses, it could be a valid trial license or a permanent
license. In the case of a floating license, Installation Manager will
connect to the Rational License server that is defined in Installation
Manager for your company to see if there are available floating licenses.
In the case when you are offline and can't validate with your Rational
License server, as long as you have validated recently, it will still let
you work.
Thanks,
Eric
Eric Simpson
Rational Developer for i - Rational Developer for
AIX and Linux - Rational Developer for Power
IBM Software Group - Canada Lab
Phone: 905-413-3226 (T/L: 313-3226)
esimpson@xxxxxxxxxx
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/19/2015 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Open source options to RDi for offline source
editing?
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/19/2015 10:49 AM, Dan wrote:
This is interesting. At my previous employer, RDi, upon startup,
always
checked with the corporate mothership to ensure the license was still
valid. Is that something my employer set up? I'm not sure what would
have
happened if I was offline when that was checked. Since it was on a
company
laptop, and I was always online when I used it, I never got to find out
for
myself. I think they had a "site" license, unlimited maybe?
That sounds like a floating licence. There are several licences; mine is
for a named user.
Could be a floating license,
but note that during startup RDi briefly displays a message along the
lines of "Checking license status" even with a named user license.
If you go into IM then manage licenses you should be able to tell if it's a
floating license or not. Judging from the ability to enable "Floating
license support" for RPG & COBOL tools with my named license.
Charles
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