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List of special characters supported by license usage reports in RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.9 and higher

Question & Answer


Question

Which special characters are supported by license usage reports in IBM Rational License Key Server (RLKS) Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.9 and higher?

Answer

List of supported special characters:

<
>
{
}
|
\
ˆ
` (Grave Accent / Backtick)
(Blank Space)
!
[
~
.
!
$
&
*
+
,
;
=
/
?
#
%
:
@


All other non-ASCII Unicode characters are supported.

List of unsupported special characters:

" (Double Quotes)

'


Note: If a RLKS Administration Agent is upgraded to version 8.1.4.9 or higher, following steps should be performed.

1) Check if the log file contains any of the following characters. If yes, perform next steps.

<
>
{
}
|
\
ˆ
` (Grave Accent / Backtick)
(Blank Space)
!


2) In ART, perform "Remove Reporting" for the agent that has a special character from step #1. Ensure that the corresponding data source is removed from LQE.

3) Perform "Start Reporting" for this agent.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSTMW6","label":"Rational License Key Server"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"8.1.4.9;8.1.5","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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