Re: How to audit RDi 9.6 users

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Count the number of RDI.exe instances across your network?  You can
probably figure out the release level from the executable's properties;
anything not 9.6 is a potential unused license.

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 4:06 PM Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We're going through an audit and I, a new contractor at this company, have
> been asked to determine all the users that have RDi installed.  I don't
> know what kind of license we have, although I'm told we have 70 of them.
> We have reason to believe that we are not using anywhere near that number.
>
> FWIW, we download the following two files from our network drive to do the
> install:
>   RationalDeveloperForiV9.6TrialWebInstall-Windows.zip
>   com.ibm.rational.developer.ibmi.rpgcobol.v96.pek.jar
>
> From there, we unzip the zip file and run the UserInstall.bat file.  After
> installation, we "install" the activation kit (.jar file).
>
> Unless there's some kind of black box magic during activation, I can't see
> how we can manage the number of RDi users.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> - Dan
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