Notes from Rational Support

When you renew support for the certain rational products listed below, the order will not flow in to rational license key center, instead the PA (Passport Advantage) website would get updated with the latest software versions.

The reason for these products not to flow into LKC (license key center) is because they work on version based concept. What is a version based concept? It is products which are designed to work without the maintenance expiry date in the license file.

For Example: Here is a “version based license”. You have a permanent license key with no maintenance expiration date.

INCREMENT ClearQuest rational 1.10000 permanent 32 EB37995684D9 \

VENDOR_STRING="0|Floating|0| 0" DUP_GROUP=UH \

Hence the latest maintenance renewal will not appear in the license file.

Below are the list of Rational product that flow into the License key Center after support renewal are:

• Rational Change
• Rational DOORS
• Rational DOORS Web Access
• Rational Focal Point
• Rational Logiscope
• Rational Publishing Engine
• Rational Rhapsody
• Rational Statemate
• Rational Synergy
• Rational System Architect
• Rational TAU
• Rational TTCN

The above products work on “date based concept” where it is mandatory to have the latest maintenance end date to appear in the license file.

A date based license key has the Subscription and Support (S&S) end date built-in as the license key version.

For example: 2010.1231 is Dec 31, 2010, the end date of your current S&S. The license key is used with any software version released before the end date of the built-in license version (S&S end date). To use any newer release, the license key must be updated with new S&S orders for each period of renewal.

When receiving your S&S renewal email, you must enter the IBM License Key Center and upgrade your license key using your S&S Renewal Order. Most date based licenses can be used for earlier versions as long as nothing else has changed, like FEATURE, INCREMENT, and so on.

Here is an example of a date based license. You have permanent license key with the maintenance expiration date of January 31, 2012.

INCREMENT DOORS telelogic 2012.0131 permanent 6 40C00020EDC351B83E4A \

VENDOR_STRING=T10-999999 ISSUED=22-Jul-2011 BORROW=2160 \

This key will work for any product software versions released on or before January 31, 2012. If you intend to use a product version released after January 31, 2012, you must purchase and apply a Renewal Order to the existing license file. This can only be done through the License Key Center.

If your license key expiration is permanent, you can use the keys permanently. However, it might be limited to versions with corresponding valid S&S renewal dates.

Note: The original License Order and Associated Renewal Order have to be registered on the same IBM Site ID. To apply the renewal order and upgrade the license keys, the orders must reside on the same License Key Center account ID

References:

• Login to LKC
• Applying maintenance to Telelogic product licenses using Rational License Key Center

Author: Saurabh Tyagi, co-author Edwin Premnath

I am sure you have seen multiple download buttons after adding Rational Tokens to existing Token server using the License Key Center, wondering why – please find the details below.

IBM Rational License Key Center captures the activity with the date history. When more tokens are added to the existing server on different intervals, Rational License Key Center records the number of Tokens assigned to the server and the date when it was generated.

This helps you to determine the total number of token to be used during the import of the license key on the server.

For Example: Screen shot 1 will show you how the download page looks on license key center when initially100 Tokens are generated for a given server on the July 3^rd 2014.

Now, as and when the requirement for Tokens increases the License key center administrator logs in to the center to add more Tokens

Example: 100 more on a 8^th of July, I see 2 download buttons.

What is important here is the date that the key center captures to maintain history of number of Tokens used on different dates. So on the July 8^th the license key was generated for 200 Tokens irrespective of which Download button you choose.

Note: The license keys get appended when more tokens are added to the existing server, so ideally there is no difference in quantity between the two download buttons.

References :

• Rational Token Licensing Concepts and Management
• Token Licensing for Jazz based products
• Rational Token Licensing white paper

Author: Saurabh Tyagi, co-author Edwin Premnath