We have added extra CPUs then we got Extra Problems!!!

alraaayeq · Post by **alraaayeq** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:59 am

We have Sun Solaris 9 working on 8 CPUs, this platform is running with many applications and one of them is Ascential Datstage 7.5.recently, we realized that the CPUs are 0% idle in many different hours per day ,so we decided to upgrade.

once we did that , the DS starts to log a warning messages saying "WARNING: DataStage has found more CPU's on your system (12) than your current license allows ( 8 ). Please contact Ascential Client Support or your Ascential Account Manager."This caused the jobs to have different finish status and this lead to many aborting jobs as well....

can we suppress these warnings ? and what is the proper way to deal with it? is DS stage now working on 12 CPUs or 8 CPUs?

Many Thanks

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:02 am

alraaayeq,

this is something you need to clear up with your DataStage sales representative. DataStage licensing is based upon the number of processors, you purchased a license that lets you run DataStage on this system with 8 cpus, but you have put in more and that is a violation of your contract with IBM/Ascential. DataStage, on a system such as yours, cannot limit itself to run on just n out of m CPUs; that is a function limited to the OS.

Talk to IBM and I'm sure they'll come up a suitable upgrade license (for a fee, of course).

alraaayeq · Post by **alraaayeq** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:52 am

Hmmm!

I did not know that !!, even I was not involved in any license deals with Asential...for sure the company that I worked with is not aware of such what you called "violation" neither do I !!

Thanks for your advice..

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:14 am

No Problem, it is not as if a group of dark-suited "license Police" are going to come crashing into your data centre to impound the machine

The difficulties are not so simple with CPU-based pricing. The last client I was at was running on IBM hardware and activated SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) which effectively doubles the CPUs listed; so DataStage suddenly started complaining about too many processors as well.

I guess no matter what licensing policies a software developer chooses some problem will show up, somewhere.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:25 pm

Apart from buying more licences, there's no way to suppress this warning.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:13 pm

You could always remove the 'illegal' CPUs.