Adding license PIDs to pattern types

You can add license product IDs to pattern types by modifying the JSON files, rather than from the Cloud Pak System Software user interface. Use this information for adding PIDs to virtual applications that you created in your environment.

1. Extract the files in the .tgz file for the pattern type.
2. Find the patterntype.json file. This file is at the top level, together with the locales and licenses folders.
3. Add the following lines to the patterntype.json file:

   "license"  : {
           "pid"  : "5725D65",
           "type" : "Server"
       }

4. For one of the plug-ins included in the pattern type, edit the file <pluginname>/export/bin/templates/<name>.vm by adding a reference to the pattern type license, in the vm-templates section.
   For example:

   {
        "vm-templates": [
            {      
              "name"     : "<pluginname>",                        
              "packages" : [ "<package1>", "<package2>" ],                  
              "licenses" : [{"<pattern-type-shortname>":"1.0"}],
               ...       
         } 
        ]
   }

   The licenses section lists the shortname and version for the pattern type that is defined in the patterntype.json file.
5. Rebuild the pattern type to create the .tgz file, or compress it using the tar command.
   For example:

   tar -cvzf <pattern_name>.tgz <directory>