Change License number

[jusami25]

Hi collegages,

I would like to know if it's possible to install DataStage with a license number, and then change de license number with a new number without re-installing everything??


Thanks in advance
Julio

[Kirtikumar]

Check out DS Admin pdf.
No need to reinstall the DS.

There are two type of license - server and client.
Server is for DS server and client is for the client DS applications.

[ray.wurlod]

There are LOTS of different kinds of licence. You should be able to re-license in the Administrator client.

[chulett]

As long as you are running 7.5.x then yes - before that, you would need to reinstall everything to re-license.

[slinni]

As long as you are running 7.5.x then yes - before that, you would need to reinstall everything to re-license.

Is the client license tied to a particular server.
i.e. if I have one configuration with a server and 10 client licenses and another server with 5 client licenses,
a) can I use the 10 client license pack to connect to the second server to allow 10 developers to work on this?
b) or even better, can I use 15 people at a time?
Would appreciate any links to sites where the licensing model is discussed.

would appreciate any pointer to this basic question..

[ray.wurlod]

(a) yes
(b) yes

The entire licensing model is not discussed anywhere. You might like to search the forum for DS_LICENSE (the name of a hashed file in which connected client information is stored). There is, of course, more to it than that; for example licensing control is actually done in shared memory; it is partially implemented as a set of counters, partially as shared and exclusive locks and - as noted - recorded in the DS_LICENSE file in the DataStage home (or UV) account.