ClearCase licenses

In general, any IBM® ClearCase® operation that involves the database (MVFS access) or the albd_server will most likely cause a license to be activated for that user. This means that the user has "accessed" ClearCase and that a license has been consumed for that session.

Most anything you do that involves the product consumes a license, for example:

• When you are in a VOB or looking at data through a view (a ClearCase host or a non-supported host through an exported view.)
• Use any cleartool commands that modify data (for example, checkout and checkin).
• Call any metadata operations on labels, branches, attributes, and triggers.
• Use any listing or reporting commands like lsvob, lsview, describe, or find.
• Use ClearMake and merge.

For the configuration management interface license on the IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® side, it is consumed for the entire Rhapsody session.

Regarding the ClearCase license itself, any client utility you run (such as cleartool) tries to get a license. If it is successful, you keep it for 60 minutes by default. During this time, when you enter a command, the license is renewed. When the 60 minutes has elapsed, another user can take the license. This scenario applies when you use the cleartool commands from the batch interface.

Regarding the SCC interface, it would depend whether you initialize/uninitialize the interface with each command, or at the first usage/after closingRhapsody .